Anti-US trend in Harvard explained

An American antiwar activist has explained an anti-US trend among Harvard students, saying they managed to “cut through the layers of propaganda.”

Joe Iosbaker, a leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition, told Press TV on Saturday that he was “glad”, and agreed with some US students who believe that the imperialist country is a greater danger than the ISIL terrorists, according to a recent survey at the university.

“I think it’s just a matter of math that the United States empire is the greatest danger to world peace,” Iosbaker said.

The activist referred to Washington’s killing of “a million Arabs and Muslims in the past decade,” as well as the provision of “arms and political backing for the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the repeated massacres in Gaza,” as proof.

“Which government created the conditions for the emergence of the ISIS?” he asked, adding, the US refuses to stop the “puppet governments” of the region from supporting the militants in Syria.  

Washington should stop supporting the “mercenary” militants fighting against the Syrian government, whose forces are “the one army that has proven their ability to fight and defeat” ISIL, Iosbaker said, noting, “There will be no ISIS to worry about,” then.

ISIL militants made swift advances in much of northern and western Iraq over the summer, after capturing large swaths of territory in neighboring Syria.

Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since 2011 with ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently controlling parts of it.

The Western powers and their regional allies — especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — are reportedly supporting the militants operating inside Syria.

More than 191,000 people have been killed in over three years of fighting in the war-ravaged country, says the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), calling the figure a probable “underestimate of the real total number of people killed.

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