U.S. Senate Fatally Heading for War
„A punitive campaign without resolution by the UN Security Council is against international law and increases the suffering of the Syrian civil society. The U.S. and Russia have to jointly urge the Security Council of the United Nations for a comprehensive arms embargo and immediately negotiate with the civil war parties about the complete destruction of chemical weapons under UN supervision,“ comments Stefan Liebich, member of the foreign committee of the faction DIE LINKE and deputy chair of the US parliamentary group, on the US senate committee on foreign relations approving a resolution allowing for a 60 days military intervention in Syria. It was decided after a several hours long hearing of US secretaries of state and defense during which they asked for approval of a military reaction to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad. Liebich further:
„The argument of US secretary of state John Kerry and secretary of defense Chuck Hagel for a U.S. entry into war in Syria is bizarre and beyond reason. Kerry and Hagel obviously stop at nothing to persuade the parliamentarians of a military strike. Relating to the Nuremberg war crimes trial is as little acceptable as the indirect threat of strikes against Iran and North Korea, or the Libanese hisbollah. What’s more, no definite proof as to the initiator of the chemical weapons attack in Syria was presented and a referral to international law was completely ignored.
DIE LINKE objects a military strike against Syria. The Bundestag has to immediately gather in case of a senate support for president Obama‘s plans of attack and has to rule out any participation of Germany. To this belongs the immediate withdrawal of Patriot missiles and the German federal army from Turkey.“