The US President,
Barak H. Obama, is currently seeking
domestic Congressional endorsement and international political support to legitimate
his decision to invade Syria. The US war against Syria has the strategic support
of Israel, which shares the goal of containing Iran and the
Hizb-Allah of Lebanon
, which are viewed as the last
threat to Israel’s national security interests in the wider Middle East. As Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria come under external attacks one after the
other, the unfolding humanitarian disaster it represents for the common Muslim
peoples is a matter of grave concern. The recent reports about the usage of
chemical weapons in the on-going Syrian civil war provide the perfect pretext
for the planned invasion. The unilateral intervention, without sufficient
approval from the broader international community and the UN Security Council
in particular, will be a naked violation of the rules and principles of
international law. In the name of protecting the people, the US military intervention
will only repeat the tragic history of destruction of the very edifice of yet
another Muslim society.
Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, India’s former
Foreign Secretary and a distinguished scholar of international affairs, in his
article “Two-faced in West Asia”,
published in The Hindu (New Delhi),
September 4, 2013, comments upon the US case for intervening in Syria as “legally weak, internationally divisive and
morally hollow”. For the benefit of our readers, we reproduce the article
below:
President
Barack Obama’s case for intervening in Syria is legally weak, internationally
divisive and morally hollow
