America’s Sponsorship of Global Terrorism

America and the West’s support and encouragement of terrorism created the fires and wars that the Middle East is today witnessing. The United States and, from behind it, Europe have dealt with events in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine using a double standard.

Successive American administrations have proven time and time again that they are the biggest supporters of al-Qaida and other extremist terrorist groups. They have proven that their limited confrontation with these groups is only a cover for the extensive support, both direct and indirect, that they provide to al-Qaida in Pakistan, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and North Africa. They have proven that they flagrantly intervene in the affairs of other countries, such as Ukraine, by spreading chaos and destroying the prospect of development in order to serve their interests and the interests of the Zionist entity, which itself incites against Syria day and night to weaken the country and remove it from the axis of resistance. The best evidence of this is the Islamic State group, which has received all kinds of support and sponsorship from America, the West, neighboring countries, the pawns of Turkey and the petrodollar sheikhdoms within their orbit, and yet has suddenly become, in President Obama’s view, a dangerous extreme terrorist organization, a cancer that must be extracted before it spreads and reaches the hearts of Europe and America.

The war America is waging against the Islamic State group is a great lie. The mandate to fight terrorism given to the United States is fallacious, as the United States is “the first sponsor of global terrorism” the Islamic State is protected by America and its allies. If America really wanted to eliminate the group, they could have intensively bombed its convoys when they crossed the desert between Syria and Iraq last June. Furthermore, Western countries so far have no clear policy for combating the Islamic State group and have not specified the mechanisms they will use or the limits by which they will abide. The statements of European and American leaders allude to a state of confusion in the West’s dedication to confronting terror. This confusion is evident in the fact that the West continues to support and provide financial aid to terrorist organizations and the fact that that these organizations are openly smuggling oil from the wells it controls and selling it cheaply to individuals and companies completely unchecked.

America is content with what the Islamic State group is doing and has hesitated a great deal in responding to it. Even America’s air raids have been nothing more than a show, and it is supplying the organization with weapons to ensure its survival. On the one hand it is providing the Iraqi air force with rockets and artillery and on the other it is providing the Islamic State group with anti-aircraft rockets. This confirms that America embraces terrorism and is working to strengthen terrorist takfirist groups. It considers them the military arm through which it can implement its colonialist agenda, which targets humans and stone alike, destroying the peoples’ past along with their present existence.

Many observers, experts and researchers stress that America is not fighting and uprooting the Islamic State group, as some people like to market, for if it wanted to do that, it would have begun by stopping the support and financing that its client states, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf countries, are providing the organization. It would have cut off the supply and recruitment lines that pass through Turkey and Jordan, and it would have blockaded the Islamic State group from its most important source of revenue, the oil that it steals from Iraq and Syria. This oil is being sold to Europe by Turkish merchants, who go back to the Islamic State group with great financial returns in the form of American dollars.

Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, stressed that Washington is accounting for the foreigners who join the terrorist organizations in Syria by prolonging the terrorism there to ensure that they do not return to Western countries. Washington fears that if a number of these foreigners return to America, the terrorism that it, along with the West, has supported will backfire, and these governments will pay for the seeds they have sown with their security and the security of their citizens.

Similarly, Robert Fisk stressed in The Independent that “war on terror” has become a flexible term used without a delimited meaning. This has led to an increase in the number of people who must be fought.

Washington divides terrorists into two groups: the “moderates” that it sponsors and encourages when they serve its interests and the interests of Israel, and the extremist that it claims to fight, like the Islamic State group and al-Nusra. However, the differences between them are only theoretical. This is proven by the Zionist entity’s sponsorship of al-Nusra in southern Syria and the logistical support, medical support, arms and training that it provides via Jordan. The Zionist enemy is the origin of terrorism, and its agents that are today conducting corruption, murder, destruction and expulsions remind us of what this enemy has been doing to the Arab people for decades. Hence, fighting this terrorism and all of its branching networks by all means possible and with all capabilities must be a top priority.

There is a truth that the West and all those with it will have to acknowledge sooner or later: Terrorism can only be fought and entirely eliminated through cooperation and coordination with countries in the region, particularly Syria. In Syria, recent events and developments demonstrated that a single battle waged by the Syrian Arab army against the takfirists was infinitely more important and more beneficial than all of the Western coalition’s raids on the organization over the past months. Hence, the resistance and the countries backing it must be supported on all levels by the Arab, regional and international communities, whatever the pressures and challenges. Without such cooperation, discussion about terrorism and confronting it will remain mere talk and empty slogans. The first steps are to establish a specific definition of terrorism, although many already realize that terrorism and legitimate resistance are each unmistakable, and to relinquish the agents and collaborators.

America, the West, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel are supporting al-Qaida, the terrorist group, and its disciples in the Islamic State group, the al-Nusra front, and the other groups connected to it, in order to implement America’s hostile agenda in the region and the world as a whole.

In contrast, the Syrians have been more certain than ever before that they are advancing in the field and on all fronts. They know that the political situation is evolving with their increasing trust in their ability to defend themselves and endure with greater rigor than before. The Syrians’ defiance has become more pronounced, and the path we are taking will lead to victory, which is on the horizon and drawing nearer.