Within days the USA and Britain are planning an
attack on Syria. The recall of Parliament is expected to back the military
action at an emergency meeting convened for Thursday 29th August.
The situation in Syria has changed so much since the
initial promise of the Arab Spring.
Minority groups of Christians and Alawites have felt
threatened by the growing Islamic Sunni reaction to the potential of the Arab
Spring.
The
rebels in Syria are not a mass movement for change but an attempt by one armed
group supported by foreign mercenaries to simply replace Assad with a
fundamentalist regime.
Worried
by the rise of Jihadists in the opposition forces the US has been supplying
arms and by training the Free Syrian Army.
The Assad
regime is clearly winning the war which has pushed the US to direct
intervention in order to prevent Assad’s military advance.
The chemical weapons
attack on August 21st killed hundreds of civilians including many
children this is now being used as justification for American military action.
We don't
know what circumstances are surrounding the use of chemical weapons in Syria
but the Americans and opposition groups have no interest in establishing the
truth.
United Nations could play a role in preventing
the conflict but we don’t want another dodgy dossier of false evidence.
What
are the real aims of military intervention in Syria.
After
more than 100,000 deaths in this bloody civil war in Syria over the last two
years, the US government is now suddenly becoming extremely concerned by the
killing of women and children and innocent civilians. How many have been killed
before by weapons supplied by western powers to one or the other sides of this
bloody proxy war.
Conventional
weapons have been used to kill thousands of civilians but that wasn’t enough to
cross of red line for America and Britain.
Cruise missiles
do not discriminate between military personnel and civilians when they strike
Syria. It is the ordinary Syrian people
who will be the victims of the destruction of energy and water supplies.
What are
the real aims of American intervention?
The
declared aim to destroy the deposits of chemical weapons is laughable, the
Assad regime will have used the past months to protect their stocks of weapons
and defend against air strikes.
From the
Americans point of view a long stalemate in hostilities is preferable to one
side getting the upper hand.
So airstrikes
are being used to restrict the Syrians army’s ability to mount an offensive
against the opposition.
The most
plausible aim of US intervention seems to us to be that of seriously affecting
the Syrian army's ability of taking advantage of the momentum gained in their
offensive against the opposition armies.
We will
then see a so called peace conference leaving the monster Assad in power an
allowed to attack opponents at will.
There is
also a danger that Syria could be used as a proxy for a phoney war between
America and its allies and Russia.
The
Russian military has already delivered advanced surface-to-air missile batteries
for Assad. The US Navy has deployed in
the area in recent days. And has the option to strike Syria from air force
bases in several Mediterranean countries.
Russia
has also established of a permanent presence in the Mediterranean and has moved
several large landing ships to the area.
Over the
coming days we will see the media propaganda aimed at building public opinion
to support military action in Syria.
Military
action should be opposed. The Syrian people
are being used as cannon fodder for the games played by the USA and Russian politicians.
What is
required in Syria are decent living standards, jobs, cheap plentiful food
supplies and an end to corrupt and brutal regimes.
For the
mass of people in Syria the military action of the USA nor the Assad regime
offer a way out, what is required is the overthrow of the Assad regime by the
mass of working people and the organisation of society not based on religion
but on the need of the population.
