US-led fight against ISIL charade: Commentator

Press TV has conducted an interview with Paul Larudee, former US government adviser from Berkeley, to discuss the recent remarks by Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gholam-Ali Khoshroo on the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe and the terrorists groups operating in the Middle East.  

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gholam-Ali Khoshroo has said certain entities are supporting these terror groups and actually causing the problem as a matter of fact to get worse, though at the same time, saying that they are trying to stop terrorism. Your take on what he has said Mr. Larudee.

Larudee: If anything, he is being very diplomatic about the situation because the problem is not the terrorists who chop off people’s heads, but it is the problem of the terrorists who support them and these terrorists exist in the form of neo-conservatives in Washington and neo-colonialists in other countries who insist on causing havoc, and death and destruction throughout the Middle East for I guess you could say fun and profit from their point of view. It is not fun for the people who have to suffer this, but they do not care. This is the biggest problem that we face.

The United States and its so-called allies both in Europe and in the Middle East have created wastelands throughout the Middle East and what thrives in wastelands are rats, vermin and weeds and these are the rats and vermin and weeds that form part of the so-called Islamic State (Daesh Takfiri terrorists), al-Qaeda and the other faces. This is what where the problem is and we should not look at al-Qaeda itself as the problem, but at the sources that provide the funding that they could survive.

Press TV: Many regular people, be it in Europe or in the United States, really do not understand the connection between their own governments and the rise of the these terrorists as we can see now there is a backlash against the refugees who have gone to some of these European countries and, in general, a mentality sort of blaming the actual victims which would be probably the majority of Muslims. What can be done basically to educate the people of these countries in order to try to pressure their governments to change their tactics?

Larudee: It seems so obvious when you look at just a few of the facts. For example, three-quarters of the armaments of the Islamic State are made in the United States for God’s sake. And the fact that more than a year has gone by without the United States making any significant impact in the strength of these terrorists who are as a very short-period of bombing by Russia and with some help for the Syrian government by Iran and Hezbollah and the Syrian army itself, of course is doing the most of the fighting, but they have achieved miracles with respect to this in a very short time. The United States’ contribution to this is a charade, it is an act; there is no reality to it, it is a deception. The United States is supporting these and its allies are supporting the terrorists with guns, money, and diplomatic protection and so forth. You remove all of that, and then these people disappear. You know the whole idea of Wahhabi Islam, if you can call it that, will disappear with it. It is being supported by the blood of children, mothers, and families that are dying on the fields of Western imperialism.

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