US coalition sharing guilt of Spain attacks: Pundit

Terrorist attacks in Spain have left at least 14 people dead and over 100 others injured. Press TV has interviewed Jim W. Dean, managing editor of the Veterans Today from Atlanta, and Michael Lane, founder of American Institute for Foreign Policy from Washington, to ask for their thoughts on the terrorist attacks.

Dean said US wars, spread of Saudi Wahhabism and the use of Internet to attract people into terrorist cells have played a key role in radicalizing people all over the world.

“It is a very difficult problem and there are many people that are sharing the guilt including those in the US coalition that say they are fighting terrorism, that look the other way when someone like Saudi Arabia is funding it (terrorism) all over the world,” the commentator said on Friday night.

He pointed the finger at Western powers for destabilizing other countries in order to pursue their policies around the globe.

“They (Westerners) are involved in all major destabilization because it enhances their power and decreases the power of democracies because the people are surrendering a lot of their rights and it is also very good for their economics because people are demanding more money to be spent on defense, more money on intelligence, more money on ballistic missiles and very expensive countermeasures.”

Dean further said many of US allies want to continue weapons trade with the Riyadh regime, although they are well aware that Saudi Arabia is spreading radicalism, which is the root cause of terrorism.

The West has not been able to cope with terrorist threats, because the underlying problem is radicalization, which comes from the Saudi Wahhabi ideology, he underlined.

Dean also warned, “Very few people seem to be concerned with the long-term consequences ... that this thing (terrorism) will get to a point where it can’t be controlled.”

Meanwhile, Lane, the other contributor on the show, said that Catalonia is prone to terrorist attacks because there are more than a million migrants in the region and they are “not assimilating into the population.”

“When you have groups that don’t adopt the culture of the country they go to, they start being more easily persuaded about reasons why things are going wrong,” he argued.

Pointing to the role of Saudi Wahhabism behind terrorist attacks around the world, he noted that the House of Saud has a deal with Wahhabi figures to live together in calm and harmony, but the Saudi royal family should take action to stop terror acts as a whole.

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