US President Barack Obama’s recent call for the world to unite against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group is a blatant example of “hypocrisy” because Washington is one of the “leading exponents of terrorism around the world,” an American geopolitical analyst says.
The US government has direct and covert ties to terrorist groups in various countries, said Eric Draitser, who is an independent analyst based in New York City and the founder of stopImperialism.com.
“We can point to literally hundreds of examples of the United States either fomenting terrorism, funding terrorism or using its proxies to do those things,” Draitser told Press TV on Friday.
“Terrorism is one of the most potent weapons that the United States has in its arsenal to achieve [its] political ends; this is true in the Middle East, this is true all over the world,” he added.
“Obama, just like every president before him, just like who ever will succeed him, is one the…