Paul Craig Roberts: How To Stop Obama’s Military Aggression Against Syria
How To Stop Obama’s Military Aggression Against Syria
September 6, 2013 by Paul Craig Roberts
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Many people are asking what can be done to stop the pending U.S. attack on Syria.
Two things can be done.
One is the U.S. Congress can realize that it does not save America’s face for Congress to endorse a policy that has been rejected by the rest of the world, including Washington’s closest ally, Great Britain. For Congress to endorse what the U.N. secretary general and the president of Russia have made unequivocally clear would be a war crime under international law harms, rather than rescues, America’s reputation. Doing the wrong thing to save face does not succeed.
In the event that Congress fails to understand the real stakes and votes to support a criminal action, the second thing that can be done to stop the attack is for most other countries in the world — China, India, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Iran, South Africa and European and South American countries — to add their clear unequivocal statements to those of the U.N. general secretary and President Vladimir Putin that an American attack on Syria that is not authorized by the U.N. Security Council is a war crime.
Expression by the governments of the world of this truthful statement would make it clear to Washington that it is isolated from the world community. For Barack Obama to proceed in an act of aggression in the face of united opposition would destroy all influence of the U.S. government and make it impossible for any officials of the Obama regime to travel abroad or to conduct business with other governments. What government would conduct business with a war-criminal government? It is up to the governments of the world to make it clear to Washington that the U.S. government is not above the law and will be held accountable.
– Paul Craig Roberts
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