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US foreign policy ‘contributes to extremism’: Analyst
The foreign policy of the US government has “contributed to extremism” around the world and caused the country to “lose its reputation,” a foreign policy analyst in Washington says.
“America has lost some of its reputation over the last couple of decades in terms of what it considers to be the right thing to do, which in the eyes of some other people is not at all the right thing to do and that generates or contributes to extremism,” said Edward Peck, former US Ambassador to Mauritania.
“I can offer examples: some of the support that the United States government has given to organizations that are trying to overthrow a government, at least in the eyes of that government, would be considered political extremism,” said Peck, who was also the US Chief of Mission in Iraq from 1977 to 1980.
This foreign policy strategy is nothing more than “selective morality which is really hypocrisy,” Peck told Press TV in a phone interview on Wednesday.
He made the comments as he expressed skepticism over a new initiative by the Obama administration to set up a $5 billion "terrorism partnership fund" to help other countries push back against radical extremists.
“This is not something that’s going to be easy or quick or simple and it probably is not going to be terribly effective because when you make efforts of that kind quite often, in the short run at least, you generate more extremism than there was when you started,” he noted.
“I also question whether or not the United States is capable of playing a leadership role in this program or a program of that kind.”
The new $5 billion fund to confront terrorism, announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday, is part of President Barack Obama’s new approach to explain his foreign policy strategies after becoming frustrated that they are misunderstood and criticized.
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