Kennedy to Sputnik: 'Pipeline War' is at the Roots of Syrian Crisis
Sputnik,
4 March, 2016
4 March, 2016
Radio Sputnik discusses the origins of the Syrian crisis with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attorney and nephew of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Kennedy
writes that the US decided to remove Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad from power after he refused to back a Qatari
gas pipeline project. Sputnik also touched upon US foreign
policy, the refugee crisis and why Donald Trump would be a better
president than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
We've
compromised our own constitution, including the Bill of Rights
in the name of the national security state and a warfare
state. We've gotten rid, in many cases, of the right
of jury trial. We've gotten rid of the prohibition
against cruel and unusual punishment. We talked ourselves
into this idea that it's okay to water board and torture
people.”
He
went on to say that the US public is disillusioned to think
that the US is still a beacon of democracy. He spoke about how
the government stood
for freedom of people before. But the United States has
intervened fifty eight times since WW2.
Kennedy
further said that, “WW2 was a huge lesson to us. It was a
moral lesson to the United States. It was something that we
learned in school, that the Allied forces have done a wonderful
thing by defeating Hitler.”
“But
we haven't been responsiveto the
refugee crisis. And today we are doing the same thing. And the
problem is that we really have been creating this refugee crisis. We
are the ones that destroyed the government of Libya.”
“We
are the ones that in this pipeline dispute helped destroy the
government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. We are the ones who
invaded Iraq, when there were no weapons of mass destruction,
when Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. And Saddam
Hussein was very hostile to al-Qaeda, as was Muammar
Gadaffi. Gaddafi was helping us fight Al-Qaeda,” Kennedy said.
“Bashar
Assad after 9/11 gave us the dossiers on terrorists
from the Islamic jihadist groups because he saw them as mutual
enemies.”
Kennedy
said, “I am not saying that we should ally ourselves with the
dictators. But we ally ourselves with the Saudis. And the Saudis
don't let women drive a car. You go to jail if you drive a car.
They behead people every Wednesday in Mecca. They torture people
and they suppress free speech and they do a lot that is probably
worse.”
He
went on to say that, “When we decide to overthrow those
people, if you examine the real motives, almost always they serve the
interests of large United States corporations who have an
economic interest in the region. And in this case that was
true. If you look at the roots of this war it is a pipeline
war.”
“It
was a Sunni revolution that was funded by our allies, by Qatar
and Saudi Arabia. And in many cases the soldiers of this
revolution were trained and armed by the United States.”
The
first part of the interview you can find here
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