US policy on Syria rooted in economic profits: Author
Press TV has interviewed Dean Henderson, author and political commentator from Memphis, and Richard Millet, journalist and political expert from London, to discuss US double-standard policies on the fight against terror groups.
Henderson maintains the CIA trains Takfiri militants in Jordan, while Washington’s allies such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia support and fund the terrorist groups, saying such a policy has led to the spread of ISIL terror threat to Libya.
Pointing to Iraq’s vast oil reserves, he argues that the US foreign policy in Syria and Iraq seems to be based on economic motives, led by “big oil companies.”
American oil firms have not been able to gain a big share from the Iraqi oil reserves; therefore, they have tried to put pressure on the Baghdad government through terrorist groups like the ISIL.
The author says the ISIL terrorist group is also stealing crude oil from Syria, stressing that the illegal oil sales help the Western oil companies avoid bankruptcy as they purchase the stolen oil from the terror group with an eye-catching discount.
The Western media propaganda on establishing “democracy in Syria” is not true, Henderson notes, adding that the West plans to “privatize the Syrian economy” and hand it over to their own corporations and bankers.
For his part, Millet believes that the United States seeks to provide the Syrian Kurdish forces, who are fighting against the ISIL militants, with air cover to facilitate their military operations.
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