US, allies sponsors of terrorism in Syria: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Richard Becker, a member of the ANSWER Coalition in San Francisco, and Daniel Serwer, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Becker says the United States and its allies, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have been the “sponsors of terrorism” against the Syrian government for a long time.
He maintains that the US and NATO countries’ intervention in Iraq, Libya and Syria has created the current “terrible tragic situation” in the Middle East.
“This is external western imperialist intervention that has created the chaos and the carnage inside of these countries and for them to get on some moral high horse and try to tell others what to do and who should intervene and who should not, is just the height of cynical hypocrisy,” he said.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Becker noted that the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group became a threat only because of western intervention in the region, beginning with the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
“Without the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 and what followed from there, ISIS (Daesh) would not be in control of approximately one third of the territory of Iraq and one third of the territory of Syria today. So that is really what brought about the current situation,” he said.
The activist further said that Daesh is not looking to negotiate with anyone and it only seeks to establish “an extremely reactionary and right-wing form of state.”
Serwer, for his part, believes it is going to be a very difficult process to bring the Syrians to the negotiating table, adding that there will be no peace in the country as long as the opposition is excluded from the talks.
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