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US feels immune to any questioning for its acts: Commentator

Monday, 06 February 2017 6:45 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 06 February 2017 6:45 PM ]

This file photo shows a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet.

Thousands of airstrikes carried out by the US military across the Middle East have not been disclosed, a new investigation has revealed, raising questions about the transparency of the Pentagon's reported progress against the Daesh (ISIL) terror as well as costs and casualty counts.

A political commentator believes the United States does not feel obliged to give any account for its actions, adding that it considers itself above international law.

“The United States of America considers itself an empire, it considers itself as the number one state in the whole world, as the most powerful state, they are in a place not to be in a check and balance, they are not to be held accountable for their actions, then they can do whatever they want,” Ibrahim Moussawi told Press TV in an interview on Monday.

The commentator also argued the powerful countries in the world should try to make an international body that could hold the United States to account; otherwise there will always be more aggression against Middle Eastern people, governments countries.

“They [the Americans] feel that they are immune for any questioning, they are immune for any violations, no one is going to hold them accountable, no one is going to put them into any kind of legal punishment so they continue what they are doing and they can do it all the time unless something could be reached on the international level,” he said.

Moussawi further opined that the fact that civilians have been targeted more than the terrorists by US airstrikes is “very controversial”, arguing that it puts the consistency of the so-called war on terror into question.

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