London, Nov 22. IRNA — NATO leaders have come under further criticism for moving away from the fundamental terms of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, especially in adopting an offensive posture.
“The whole point of NATO was to prevent wars rather than to start them,” says peace researcher and justice campaigner James Thring.
“It has already extended its theatre of operations along way east of the Atlantic and for no logical gain,” Thring said in an interview with IRNA.
He suggested that the attacks on Afghans must create “deep anti-Western feelings which can only manifest themselves by small acts of defiance like sabotage and roadside bombs.”
NATO leaders agreed a new 10-year strategic concept at their summit in Lisbon over the weekend, which included a commitment to counter so-called new threats. An agreement was also reached to develop a joint missile defence.
Thring said the missile defence system was “probably driven by the Zionist lobby which knows Israel is committing crimes against humanity and war crimes every day against Palestinians.”
It was to “garner support for their defence against perceived enemies of Israel,” he said. NATO itself has “become a threat to humanity.”
He suggested that the Lisbon summit should have been used “as an alarm call to stand up against US-Zionist hegemony and withdraw membership.”
British forces are being used in a “bid for world power which we will kill, maim, impoverish and anger millions of people, judging by the lawless and inhumane invasion of Afghanistan,” Thring warned.
It was a “fraudulent waste of money” that was likely to be upsetting tax-payers in countries that were already sceptical about the motives of the US.