ISIS a bogeyman created by US says former US Congressional staffer

A former US Congressional staffer says the United States and its allies have created ISIL Takfiri group as a bogeyman in order to pave the ground for the redeployment of their troops into Iraq.

“ISIL is a bogeyman created by the West that would enable the West to return with boots on the ground,” said Rodney Martin in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.

“There are a lot of behind the scene agendas that created ISIL and ISIL is being sued as a bogeyman because America cannot function without a bogeyman.”

He further criticized US President Barack Obama for following the policy pursued by Neoconservatists over Syria and Iraq.

“President Obama said that the war on ISIL requires some resources. It is a neocon line. There has been a push by neocons for a return to Iraq in some form."

“These are the resources that President Obama is talking about and it’s very important to focus on the language when they talk about the resources. That means boots on the ground, a return to Iraq and essentially implementing the blueprint that was developed by The Project for the New American Century."

Martin made the remarks as the American military said it has carried out a new series of airstrikes against the positions of the terrorist group near a dam on Iraq's Euphrates River.

“ISIL captured an airbase in Syria and brutally executed about 250 Syrian troops and there was no mention, no outrage by President Obama about the execution of Syrian troops because President Obama and the West and neocons want to remove President Bashar Al-Assad,” Martin explained.

The US and its allies in the region have been financially and militarily helping the militant groups fighting against Syrian government forces in past years ignoring warnings by countries like Iran that such insurgent groups will one day turn their weapons against those who armed them.