US seeks to create failed states in Mideast: Activist

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mimi al-Laham, a Syrian activist and political commentator in Australia, about United States denying a report that dozens of civilians were killed by US-led coalition airstrikes in northern Syria last week.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Mrs. Laham, there have been various accounts as to what took place in that village in the Province of Aleppo in northern Syria. What are your thoughts on how the events have transpired?

Laham: For the last four years, the US has accepted the word of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as fact whenever it has reported that the Syrian government has been bombing. But when it comes to reporting that the US government has killed civilians, suddenly the US government no longer respects the word of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

So it is quite a blatant hypocrisy and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been a pro-opposition revolutionary organization since the start, so in fact it is in its interests not to speak out against the US but it has in fact stated that the civilians have been killed and of course the US though believing them previously now deny it.

The idea that they are killing ISIS in the area, I have heard reports that there were no ISIS in that area, it is in Aleppo region not in the Raqqa region and the hypocrisy is of the responsibility to protect, it is the reason the US has been starting all these humanitarian wars around the Middle East, including Libya and in Syria they tried to start a war, of course all the American people are against it and all the Syrian people are against their presence in Syria also.

The reason for this strike could be that the insurgence that the US has previously armed and supported, attacked Kurds in the area to the west of the town and the US goal in Syria is to basically enforce a partition of Kurdish region and the region that they designated for ISIS.

They do not actually want to defeat ISIS. They just want to contain it in that region.

Press TV: Well, it is incidents like this that further put into question the effectiveness of the airstrikes and by many accounts even questions the motives of the so-called coalition led by the US?

Laham: Well the claimed motives have been changing constantly. First, it was to protect the Syrian people to install democracy. They have been claims that the Syrian government has been bombing activists that are looking for democracy and killing their own people and here we have the US government bombing the Syrian people and killing them themselves for a totally now new reason, supposedly fighting ISIS which they themselves have created and caused since the Iraq war.

So of course it would be logical to question the word of the US government and what their real intentions are and it seems every action that they have taken is to create failed states and civil wars. That is their main objective in the Middle East.

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