Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky talks with an Iraq War veteran and answers questions collected by human rights activists from people currently living under siege in Fallujah, Iraq. The interviewer, Ross Caputi, is a veteran of the 2nd US-led siege of Fallujah. He is on the Board of Directors of the Islah Reparations Project (www.reparations.org).
Chomsky emphasizes that the Islamic State is an offshoot of the politically motivated religious ideology of American allies in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and Qatar that use extremist Wahhabi ideology to control the region. Chomsky also points out that the United States is isolating and demonizing nations and movements in Syria and Iran that are working tirelessly to stop ISIS’s expansion, but adds that ISIS is enforcing an imperialist agenda of deteriorating the Middle East and North Africa for better control of the region through divide and conquer.