US does not seek to defeat terrorism: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Joe Iosbaker, a leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition in Chicago, about the advances of the Syrian army, backed by Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah, in the strategic Qalamoun mountainous region along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Iosbaker: The Syrian army together with the Syrian national defense forces and backed by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has made important advances against ISIS in the Qalamoun region. This is very positive news, first of all because it is evidence that counters the western claims that Damascus is close to falling to ISIS.
I want to just tell the real truth of the fighting in Syria that the Syrian army is the main force fighting ISIS in the Middle East. Hezbollah of course has provided their advanced experience in warfare but the Syrian army under the leadership of the government of Bashar al-Assad has bore the brunt of the fighting with ISIS.
There is over 200,000 dead in Syria and really since ISIS is a product of all of the sectarian armies from Syria and from Iraq and from Libya, those deaths are all the sum total of the war to stop these sectarian and foreign-backed militaries.
Syria is the main battle against these sectarian and foreign-backed forces, the US-backed forces. Now the US wants to say that it is fighting ISIS but there is growing recognition of major problems with their claim.
First, the US refuses to unite with the main forces fighting ISIS. Second, the US created ISIS from their funding of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan to their promotion of the al-Qaeda in Iraq, to their backing of al-Qaeda forces in Libya, to their funding of their Free Syrian Army, most of which has now gone over to join ISIS and of course their allies – Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - are openly the backers of ISIS. And then the third problem is the true objective that the US has which is not to defeat terrorism.
Their true objective is the removal of governments and the defeat of movements that challenge US imperialism. Recently Michael Oren the former Israeli ambassador to the US said in so many words, ISIS or the government of Bashar al-Assad? Clearly he said we would rather have ISIS in power in Syria than Bashar al-Assad. I think that that reflects the attitude of the United States as well.
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