The ISIL terrorist group was created by the power vacuum following the US occupation of Iraq and Washington’s policy of supporting authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, says a public speaker in Denver, Colorado.
“ISIS (or ISIL) came into the vacuum created as a direct result of the outrageous invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the Bush administration based on blatant, premeditated lies,” said Richard Forer, author of “Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion.”
“They simply wanted to reorder the Middle East and that created a vacuum into which al-Qaeda entered Iraq and that eventually became ISIS along with other rebels in Syria,” Forer told Press TV on Monday.
“This is all to a large extent a consequence [of] not just the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, but also of decades-long policy in the Middle East that favors dictatorial regimes and wealthy capitalists over the common person,” he added.
ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Syria and Iraq. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
Recent setbacks in Iraq and Syria have raised serious doubts about the Obama administration’s strategy, months after the US president an open-ended military air campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the ISIL forces by enlisting the support of scores of allies.
President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the United States and its allies don’t have a “complete strategy” in pushing back the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
"We don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the Iraqis as well about how that recruitment takes place, how that training takes place," Obama said Monday during concluding remarks at the G7 summit in Germany.
The US president said “some progress” has been made but it was “not enough.”
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