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Press TV has conducted an interview with E. Michael Jones, Editor of Culture Wars Online Magazine from Indiana, about a UN report that says ISIL has killed hundreds of children and is using children as bombers in Iraq.

Press TV: These figures given by the UN representative for Children in Armed Conflict sort of pinpoint the human rights abuses that are taking place on the ground by these ISIL Takfiri militants; however, these reports have been coming in even way before they entered Iraq.

Why wasn’t this condemnation expressed a lot earlier when it was happening in Syria?

Jones: Well, because they were fighting for the interests of the United States in Syria and the United States-controlled press wanted to paint them in a good light.

But it’s obvious that this is not something that happened yesterday or overnight, we have a long history of irregular warfare.

The great British military historian, B. H. Liddell Hart, talked about the beginning of this in Spain when the English armed the Spanish against Napoleon. That’s where the word “guerilla” comes from - it’s a Spanish word.

He says these things always turn out badly. And he says the first reason is because you attract all the wrong people. You attract bad hats, he said, that was his word, bad hats – people who want to use their service as a way of looting and pillaging.

Now you have the Takfiri in Iraq who are using Islam as an excuse for raping and pillaging.

They should have known this.... Anyone who knew history knew that when you arm people like this you are going to have problems.

Press TV: So where does the world go beyond this point now? There are hundreds if not thousands of children right now being robbed of a rightful childhood in Iraq in Syria by the hands of these Takfiri militants.

Jones: The blame goes back to Israel. Let’s face information technology... With the creation of…Israel you displaced hundreds of thousands of people who then were condemned to live 60 years in these camps; in Lebanon and in other places – in Lebanon they can’t work.

They have children, the children grow up; there is no future for these children and so naturally they’re going to flock to something like this.

You give them an AK-47 a pack of cigarettes and 100 dollars per month, which is what the Saudis were paying these people and they flock to this thing.

And what you see here is the expression of the resentment of what has been building against this disorder in the Middle East for 60 years now.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Press TV: Basically you are saying that situations like these are necessary for Israel, for the US, for Saudi Arabia to continue destabilizing the region and to continuing to achieve their aims as far as the Middle East goes?

Jones: No, I’m not saying this is necessary, I’m saying this is an example of blowback.

We began by talking about Syria. They armed the people in Syria, their intention was to overthrow Assad, but what you realize is the metaphor to understand this is ‘Frankenstein’.

You think you’re in control of nature, you think you can control all these people and what you do is create a monster because what you’re doing is you’re drawing all this pool of injustice that has been existing there for so long and you think you can manage it for your benefit, but that’s not the way human beings are.

This is what the Greeks would call ‘nemesis’; it’s a restoration it’s revenge; it’s a restoration of the order, it’s a reminder of the order that you violated.