[Iran Press TV] Political and military interventions by the United States and its allies have sparked the ongoing crises in Syria and Iraq that have taken thousands of lives, says an author and political commentator.Jack Lauria made the comments in an interview on Monday with Press TV over Washington’s plans to increase the number of special operations forces in Syria and deploy Apache helicopter gunships to the battlefield in Iraq.
"The major reason over the last century for the crises that has beset the Middle East and North Africa, has been intervention by Western powers," Lauria said.
He said the ongoing crisis in Iraq has been particularly sparked by the US invasion in 2003 that gave rise to the ISIS (ISIS) Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group.
Lauria argued that Washington, along with
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and other Persian Gulf allies directly supported the terror group and helped it take parts of Syria under control as well.
"The issue now is what does the US do? What is the responsibility of the United States now that they have created this mess? Do they just walk away or there is more intervention needed," he noted.
Lauria said Washington’s objectives in Syria were suspicious considering its record of training anti-government faceless myrmidons in the country.