Carter using Orlando massacre to wage ‘more wars’ in Middle East
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is using the recent Orlando shooting to “promote more wars” in the Middle East, says a political commentator.
Carter said in a speech on Monday that the deadly shooting “underscores the urgency” of US fight against Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq, adding that, the threat of terrorism, specifically that of Daesh, is one of the top security challenges facing the United States.
“Orlando is a reminder that all nations must do more to defeat ISIL,” he said. “The sooner we deliver it a lasting defeat, the safer we’ll make our homelands and our people.”
The attack by Daesh affiliate Omar Mateen on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, left some 50 people dead and 53 others injured on June 12.
In a 911 call shortly after the onset of the attack, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader the Takfiri group.
Mateen’s link to Daesh “automatically leads to people like Ashton Carter using the event to promote more wars in the Middle East,” E Michael Jones, editor at Culture Wars Magazine, said in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
“The United States is directly involved in promoting these groups in the Middle East,” he noted.
Many believe that US policies in the Middle East, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have prepared the ground for extremist groups like Daesh to emerge and flourish.
Orlando an opportunity for Trump
Speaking to Press TV in the phone interview, Jones also referred to the stance adopted by anti-Muslim GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in the wake of the mass shooting, branded as the deadliest in the US history.
The presumed Republican nominee took the opportunity to reiterate on his suggested ban on Muslim immigrants entering the country despite the fact that 29-year-old Mateen was born in New York.
“Omar Mateen is an American citizen, so banning Muslim immigration wouldn’t do any good in this regard,” Jones said, however, noting that Trump is taking advantage of the massacre because “his opponent in the upcoming election, Hillary Clinton, was directly involved in putting weapons into the hands of ISIL.”
As the secretary of state, Clinton “deliberately orchestrated the murder” of Libya’s longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, after which her “proxy warriors” started moving weapons from the African country to Syria where Daesh terrorists have been wreaking havoc, said the analyst.
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