The Sunday News
The US claim of advocating democracy contradicts its support for militants in the Middle East, which shows Washington is fighting against democracy, an activist tells Press TV. In an interview with Press TV yesterday, John Parker, an activist with the International Action Center in California, said it is “ironic” that the US claims to advocate democracy while it continues “funding mercenaries and terrorists,” for instance, in Syria with the aim of changing the country’s government.
“They are not promoting democracy. The US is fighting against democracy. It’s fighting against the will of the people. This is so ironic,” Parker said, adding:
“They say the US is fighting for democracy, yet 88 percent of the vote was for President [Bashar] Assad in Syria. If they really were concerned about the democratic view of the people, then they’d cease arming and funding terrorists and mercenaries.”
Regarding the turmoil in Iraq, the activist warned that a green light by the UN to the US to intervene militarily in the Arab country would contribute to Washington’s meddlesome policies in the Middle East.
“If they’re going to allow the United States to even think about military operations that the US wants to do in order to spill over into Syria, in order to have an excuse to send troops and drones over into Syria . . . then they are contributing to one of the most dangerous forces in the world today and that is US imperialism,” he said.
The remarks come after the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Takfiri militants captured two provincial capitals earlier this week, namely Tikrit in the Salahuddin Province, and Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in the northern province of Nineveh.
Over the past days, Iraqi armed forces have been engaged in fierce clashes with the terrorist group, ISIL, who has threatened to take its acts of violence to other Iraqi cities, including the capital, Baghdad.
Takfiri terrorists are reportedly entering Iraq from neighbouring Syria and Saudi Arabia. – Presstv.
