Former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings has reacted over the attack launched by the United States of America on Syria.
Last
week, a military base in Syria was attacked on the order of President
Donald Trump after the country’s president Bashar al-Assad was accused
by the Trump administration of launching a chemical attack on civilians.
In
an article titled: ‘The immortality of international politics’, Mr.
Rawlings, said the attack was the most vicious and persistent cowardly
act over the seven-year period.
He also condemned world leaders who have gone mute over the recent attack on Syria.
Read his full article below...
The immortality of international politics -By Jerry John Rawlings
The
world has witnessed yet another display of the military might of the
United States with the missile strikes on Syrian targets a few days ago.
The
United States justified its strikes because it believed the Assad
regime was behind a chemical weapons attack on opposition strongholds in
Syria last week.
The action of the United
States raises serious questions of justification and the real motives
behind the positions taken by the world’s super powers on Syria. The
pattern of behaviour only goes to perpetuate the immorality of
international politics.
When these dastardly
scenes of chemical warfare were being given their usual high publicity
in the Western media it was quite obvious that it was designed to poison
the atmosphere against the Assad regime.
In
spite of all the sophisticated armed support that the rebels have
enjoyed, the Assad armed forces with Russian support were able to
degrade and defeat so many ISIS targets and rebels. The world saw the
huge blow that the Assad forces dealt the rebels.
The
big question now is how an Armed Force that has virtually beaten the
rebel resistance with Russian assistance and with victory on a threshold
could conceive of such madness as to dump chemical weapons at innocent
civilians and children.
Where is the sense in
this illogical accusation if it wasn’t done to create a false impression
in order to justify what the USA and the West are doing?
Most
world leaders have gone quiet instead of condemning this subterfuge.
Who are most likely in that demented situation to do such an atrocious
act of chemical weapon usage?
Not too long ago
the West looked away, the media kept quiet while the Yemeni were being
bombed and starved of food and water. Vessels bringing aid (food and
water) were blocked and children were left looking emaciated in scenes
straight out of the holocaust.
Some of these
Western countries must regain or reset their own internal moral
compasses before embarking on such adventures. Right from the outset,
when the Assad regime and other Shia nations refused to subordinate
themselves to the unipolar power of the West and some Sunni powers,
Russia under Putin, was one of the powers that stood tall in defence of
international freedom. Russia’s effort to assist the Syrian government
set the West to attack her economy with so-called sanctions and the
reduction of the price of oil in a bid to cripple her.
This
act of underhand desperation should be seen and recognised for what it
is. The world cannot be so naive as not to see through this kind of
confidence propaganda.
The audaciousness to
embark on this fraudulent behaviour (and to follow up to this extent)
can only happen as a result of the extent of decline of international
morality and it is a manifestation of the decay in the quality of
leadership in some parts of the world.
All in
all an independent body involving neutral states must be set up to
investigate where these chemicals came from. This body must be free from
the influence of the accusers and must carefully investigate and expose
the real perpetrators. Then and only then can the world know who the
real hidden perpetrators are.
Trump’s warmth or
respect for Putin contained the seeds of peaceful co-existence and
there were those who were so dead against it and for whatever random
reason wanted to restore an antagonistic position of the old days with
Russia. Looks like the negative forces who wanted to see a climate of
conflict between Putin and Trump may finally have their way.
The
minute Secretary of State Tillerson said enough of talking at Korea and
the US ambassador at the UN staged her drama at the Security Council
followed by Trump’s act, it was clear a scapegoat would have to be
found. What better target than Assad’s Syria on taking the verge of a
military high ground and the political process kicking in with Russia’s
support?
The West and their Sunni allies’
attempt to unseat the Syrian Government is what has precipitated this
military and refugee crises in the region. Russia’s attempt to prevent a
handful of countries in the West from constituting themselves into
global governors to decide and dispense freedom and justice is partly
why this war is being fought. This is nothing more than the fraud that
was perpetrated at the UN prior to the ‘shock and awe’ in 2003. The
world cannot be so naïve, so uninformed, so blind, so emasculated as not
to see through this daylight robbery that’s going to degrade
international ethics even further? The life of freedom, justice and
democracy is what’s at stake. The deafening silence of most leaders
around the world will lead to further degrading the already sad state of
democracy.
Are these Western countries
prepared to back the Iranian and Russian calls for a very competent
neutral investigation? This call should have been made the first time
this madness occurred. I have to repeat that a regime on the threshold
of defeating its perceived enemies will not do this. A rebel group on
the verge of defeat is likely to resort to this madness on the urging of
its mindless backers.
The world must wake up.
Leaders must wake up. Assad’s Government and Assange are not those in
danger. Freedom Justice and genuine democracy is what is in danger from a
unipolar ambition to rule the world!!!
This
has been the most vicious and persistent cowardly act over the
seven-year period. America and her allies know those behind it. Russia,
Assad and Iran must know those behind it. We’ve all kept mute about the
real culprit nation and the situation has now been exploited by the US
in a senseless manner that insults the intelligence of human beings. And
because of the seeming ineffective denial and rejection of the act by
those being accused, the propaganda against them has been exploited.
No
matter how much we may hate or resent Assad, it’s absolutely outrageous
and immoral to resort to this uncivilized behaviour so as to provide
the pretext to engage in military action.
Abdul
Hamid who escaped the chemical weapon attack has every right to fight
Assad for over drum bombs etc. for anything and everything but not for
the chemical weapon attack. That comes from behind him…his own back.
Point being killing the children with the gas can serve an exploitable
purpose than leaving them to be killed by Assad’s bombs. Let’s wake up.
Let’s wake up. This kind of evil should not be allowed to pass!!
We
have been living in an age where the ability and the capacity to make
an accusation more impressive than the denial by the accused and victim
seemingly puts the truth on your side. The US pulled this con at the UN
before invading Iraq. This time it’s Syria. Syria is politically in a
very very tight spot and has conducted her war with Russian support in a
fairly conventional way and dislocated and dislodged ISIS and rebels in
a very impressive manner when the Russian Air Force got involved.
They
were left with cleaning up a few areas. So why they would do anything
so stupid is a question I’d like to direct to the world and especially
Mr. Trump and his allies and most of all to the Western media.
This
daring and dangerous fraud undermines man’s attempt to restore trust
and integrity into words and actions of nations. The world watched Mr.
Trump hack and brutalize the truth and noble people on his way into
office. This behaviour will make the world unsafe. Let’s show a little
more respect and reverence for basic truths and natural justice.
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