US fight against Daesh mere charade: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, an editor with the Veterans Today from Madison, to discuss a US air raid that killed several Iraqi soldiers, with Washington describing the strike as a “mistake.”

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: It seems that the more the US is involved in the so-called fight against Daesh in Iraq or Syria, the more mistakes that we’re seeing of this time, we have seen that Iraqi soldiers have been killed. Why does it seem that the US is always making “mistakes” in their fight against Daesh in Iraq?

Barrett: The US claims to be the world’s sole superpower and yet it seems completely unable to deal with this supposedly ragtag bunch of terrorists and mercenaries.

I don’t think that it’s any surprise that the Iraqi government is telling the US to get out of Iraq and to stay out ‘we don’t need your help, pretending to fight Daesh, because that’s all you’re doing.’

US war on Daesh is a charade. In fact the US helped create Daesh. There is a whole paper trail of memoranda going back to the one the judicial watch exposed showing that even before the Daesh existed, the US had planned to create it.

That is they said they wanted to have a Salafist principality in this precise part of Syria and Iraq that Daesh has taken over. And this supposed bombing campaign against Daesh has been going on ineffectually for over a year and a half now. Everybody knows that it’s fake. If they drop anything on Daesh, it’s weapons and foods and supplies. And now they’re bombing the Iraqi army that’s actually fighting Daesh.

So, I think that the Iraqi government is well advised as it has done to ask for help from Russia, which is actually interested in genuinely fighting Daesh. And maybe if Iraq is lucky, Russia will move some of those S-400 anti-aircraft missile batteries into Iraq so that they can keep their airspace free from the American air support for Daesh.

Press TV: On the one hand, Iraq says it doesn’t want the United States to be involved; the Syrian government has never given permission for the Americans to be involved, and yet they are involved in both places. What can be done? Who should put pressure on Washington?

Barrett: If we really lived in a democracy here in the United States, the American people would put pressure on Washington to stop funding, creating, arming and unleashing Daesh, but unfortunately the American people are being kept in complete ignorance by their Orwellian corporate media.

And I don’t think that there’s enough of an upsurge yet of people who should be going by the millions to occupy Washington D.C. to stop the US government from supporting Daesh on behalf of Israel and Saudi Arabia and other regressive Middle Eastern states.

There are forces in the American government that don’t like the current policy maybe even including the president. It seems that this is being run by fanatics, the same people that did 9/11, that have been behind 9/11 wars, these people are waging a fake war on Daesh. The American people need to wake up. I’m not sure that’s going to happen. So, I think that really what’s more likely to happen is that the Russian presence in Syria will prevent the US from flying over Syria.

And at some point, it will become so obvious that the Russians and everybody else in the region, you said telling the truth, are right that this is a phony American war on Daesh. The Americans are lying.

The Americans need to get out of the region and allow regional powers to broker a peace agreement and rebuild this region that’s been shattered and destroyed on behalf of world Zionism under Oded Yinon plan to destroy the Middle East for greater Israel. That’s what’s really going on and the people of the region are sick of it.

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