Speaking about Parliament’s decision not to go to war with Syria last week, Vladimir Putin said he was surprised to see Britain no longer following America’s lead, as it had in the past.
In an interview which was recorded on video, the Russian President went on to appeal to Obama as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Echoing comments I made in a 2010 article titled ‘Is Obama a Man of Peace?‘, Putin asked Obama to consider carefully whether war with Syria is really in the interest of world peace.
Putin He also challenged America to bring forward the evidence they claim to possess showing that Assad’s regime used chemical weapons against the rebel forces.
Elsewhere Putin raised concern for the way Christians are suffering persecution throughout the Middle East, including Syria, a topic on which President Obama has remained silent.
Obama Launches Unofficial War Against Syria
President Obama has been having as much difficulty getting Congress to approve his plan to go to war with Syria as David Cameron had trying to convince Parliament. But that has not stopped Obama waging an unofficial war against Syria.
In March this year, the New York Times reported that the America’s Central Intelligence Agency had expanded an airlift of arms and equipment to insurgent militants that had been occurring since early 2012, totalling around 3,500 tons of military equipment in total. This coincided with a series of rebel victories.
America has kept up the momentum, and in June this year Ben Rhodes, U.S. deputy national security adviser, revealed that America was stepping up the assistance it was giving to rebel groups, hoping to finally tip the balance to help the insurgents overthrow al-Assad’s government. The announcement coincided with the emergence of new lethal weapons in the hands of rebel forces.
Last Monday the New York Times reported that the first 50-man cell of fighters who have been trained by the CIA, are beginning to sneak into Syria to help try to overthrow the government.
Syria can now be added to Obama’s long list of undeclared wars. The only thing Congress has stopped Obama from doing is going to war officially with Syria.
Time to Stop Meddling in the Middle East
Given the history of America’s involvement in the Middle East, their intervention in Syria seems the height of madness. The intervention of America and Britain in Iraq resulted in a hard-line Islamic takeover and the eviction or extermination of the native Christians living in Iraq, as Andre Doran showed in his must-read article ‘How the Iraq War Became a War on Christians and Why Supporting Syria’s Rebels May Extinguish Christianity in its Oldest Environs.’ Doran explains that many Iraqi Christians died, while countless others fled to Syria where they thought they would be safe. And now Western powers are seeking to empower the very forces that are persecuting the Christian population in Syria.
Iran was a parallel situation in the mid 20th century, as I discussed in my article 2010 post ‘Foreign Policy.’ Our interference in Egypt was another case in point, leading to more killing of Christians, not less, as I showed in my article ‘Egypt: I Did Warn About This.’ And this doesn’t even include the disastrous results of America’s intervention in Libya and Afghanistan (for that, see my Examiner article ‘Why American Should Stop Meddling in the Middle East.’)
A problem with the West involving itself in Syria’s conflict, apart from the fact that it is none of their business, is the simple fact that America has chosen to support the wrong side. No one is claiming that al-Assad’s authoritarian government has been godly; however, the prospect of what might emerge if his government is overthrown is almost unthinkable. Yonadam Kanna, a member of the Iraqi National Assembly and Secretary General for the Assyrian Democratic Movement warned that the collapse of the Syrian state would be a jihadist triumph and endanger Christians throughout the entire Middle East.
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So, the world waits to see if there will be another general war in the Middle East. Ridiculously it now seems all down to what the 100 members of the US congress decide. Do they rubber stamp Obama’s desire to use his war toys or hold back from the brink. Obama said it was not about him saving his reputation. I believe it is. He is becoming one of the worst US presidents in recent times and needs some kind of event (?)/achievement by which he can be “famously” remembered. Destroying Syria, enlarging the war into a Shia/Sunni conflict is one way to do this. I think he will launch his war even if Congress does not approve.
His folly if he goes ahead will have massive implications for both Israel and Christians in the region. Just as Bush / Blair (both claiming to be Christians) destroyed the Church in Iraq so will he achieve that great distinction.
If his missiles kill one innocent person he is no better than those who used the gas he is so morally outraged about. But I suppose he will claim whilst they always try to carefully select only military targets collateral damage (ie civilian casualties) may be unavoidable. I recall in Serbia they hit the Chinese embassy (?) because their intelligence was inaccurate. We won’t mention the use of depleted uranium and white phosphorous used by the US in Iraq will we? Chemical weapons or what?
God is the ultimate judge so Mr Obama you have been warned!
Lets also not mention the 20 million gallons of chemicals the US dropped on Vietnam to kill the forests and food supply, including agent orange, which people are still dying from today, and lets also not mention the chemical weapons they gave to Iraq back in 1988 i think it was when they were allies, which Iraq then used on Iran!
Very good points, RW.
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