Syrian crisis headed for a new flashpoint with US reportedly planning military strikes against Syrian strategic targets that mainly include airports,military bases and arms depots . These strikes statedly have a limited scope lasting for few days in response to chemical weapons attacks
near Damascus allegedly carried out by Bashar al Assad forces on 21st August.
These strikes have the potential of plunging the entire middle-east in
chaotic conditions . However in carrying out these strikes US President
Obama will be bypassing the UN Security council’s authority that will
constitutes a grave violation of international law.
The UN inspectors have however been provided access to the site of the
chemical weapons attacks by Syria and their inspections and conclusion
are yet in progress.
This course will also put the Western powers alongwith Sunni forces
represented by Saudis and Qatar on a warpath with Russia,China and Iran
that support the regime of Bashar al Assad.
US lawmakers however urge Obama to exercise restraint lest the
situation may go out of control. Obama is also against involving army
boots in the conflict.
This has drawn strong condemnation from Russia,China and Iran.Russia has
issued a strong warning against US planned military strikes stating “
strike on Syria can have “catastrophic consequence” for the region
adding that international community should show "prudence" over the
crisis .Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich further
added
"Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create
artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region
are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences
for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa and they are
calling on American partners and all members of the world community to
demonstrate prudence and strict observance of international law,
especially the fundamental principles of the UN charter.
Iran on its part has blamed Israel for the conflict in Syria with an
influential member of Parliament Mansur Haqiqatpur saying that “In case
of a U.S. military strike against Syria, the flames of outrage of the
region's revolutionaries will point toward the Zionist regime”.
With US action in Afghanistan already turning out to be an utter
failure in terms of quitting without providing stability in the
country, having created conditions that negate the spring revolution
in Egypt and other countries of Mid-East, Obama may be only adding
another chapter to his sequence of failures and fallacies that
history may not allow the superpower to make amends later.
Time may have come to prove the prophetic utterance of Winston Churchill
-----the wartime PM of England –that World War will always be fought
over the Mid East.
It may also not be out of place to mention that US action in toppling
various regimes in fact result in creating conditions for revival of
AL Qaeda elements like in Libya,Egypt and Syria.
It appears that UK, France and US are trying to create conditions for
a world War so that their sagging economies could revive with sales of
arms.
For more than two years Sunni Islamists have been supplied with arms
by the West countries funded by Saudis and Qatar to effect a regime
change in Syria but having failed now alibi of chemical attack is
being taken as an excuse for the strike. Syrian have denied the same
and UN inspectors are still conducting the inspection of site clearly
Obama’s action is one sided and may necessarily become the cause of
catastrophic situation in Middle east and North Africa and engulf the
region in World war like situation.
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