In an interview to RT. Com, former official of US State Department, Matthew Hoh said that constant mistakes by the US and its incompetence to apprehend the greater strategic game in the Middle East will continue with no end in sight for millions of civilians.
While talking about the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan he said that “history didn’t start at 9/11, and certainly the American president at that time, George Bush, was under tremendous political pressure to do something. In hindsight 15 years later…it is easy to say we shouldn’t have gone into Afghanistan. The real question is: our role in Afghanistan prior to 9/11; supporting the civil war; not supporting peace efforts in the years prior to 9/11; our support for groups like Al-Qaeda in the 1980s and in the early 1990s before they turned on us – this is the blowback that people speak about. So I think it is important when we talk about 9/11 not to allow history to start on that day”.
During the interview he said, “ massive American military presence throughout the Middle East only serves to the to these various jihadist groups – groups like Al-Qaeda and its Al-Nusra [Front] allies, ISIS, the Taliban in their recruiting of Muslim men who want to fight the invader, who want fight the infidel” reported RT.