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UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR COALITION (UNAC)
STATEMENT ON
SYRIA
Hands off Syria
and Iran! End the Drone Wars!
We Need Jobs,
Education and Healthcare, Not Endless War!
The ominous signs of impending war with Syria escalate. NATO
is massing troops and military equipment on Syria's borders, and preparing to
install missiles aimed at Syria. U.S. warships are stationed off Syria’s
coast. ‘Special operation’ units are readied. The U.S. government has been
supplying arms and logistical support to a few selected Syrian paramilitary
groups favored by the U.S. as “replacements” for Assad. The media bombards us
with arguments that support foreign intervention, supposedly for “humanitarian
reasons”. Like
WMD’s in Iraq, alarms are sounded, with no credible evidence, that Assad may
unleash chemical weapons, thus establishing a pretext for invasion.
These are the facts that impel us to oppose any military,
economic, diplomatic, or covert intervention aimed at controlling the internal
affairs of Syria or any other country:
· The Syrian
people in their majority, regardless of their political positions re: the
current government, have rejected calling for foreign intervention, such as
occurred in Libya.
· Sanctions harm
the people of Syria by causing food shortages, power outages, and blocking the
distribution of goods.
· The U.S. is
directly involved in arming and training a few selected Syrian militias
favorable to the U.S., contributing to the escalation of violence, direct
foreign military intervention, and total destabilization. The people who always
suffer the most are the people not engaged in the armed struggle.
· We see the
results of ‘humanitarian’ U.S. wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Libya today, where the people, especially women and children, are worse off than
before, with millions dead, injured, and/or displaced, an infrastructure and
economy in shambles, and where there is no peace. A country that has a river of
Iraqi, Afghan, and Libyan blood on its hands has no right to tell other
countries what to do.
· The U.S.
government’s goals in Syria are to gain dominance in a part of the world that
holds the vast majority of the known oil reserves and to gain strategic
advantage as it seeks to isolate and contain competitors like Russia and China.
The U.S. has no interest in democracy or the humanitarian well-being of a
country’s peoples anywhere in the world, especially in areas where the U.S. has
economic or strategic interests.
· The U.S. has a
long history of thwarting the emerging economies and progressive initiatives of
the third world while supporting repressive regimes.
While activists may hold different views of Syria’s internal
political system, we must all agree that the U.S. government has no right to
impose its will on other countries, especially those formerly colonized and
exploited by the West. In all cases, we must support the right of nations to
self-determination – that is to be able to decide on and resolve internal
conflicts free from any foreign intervention.
The United National Antiwar
Coalition (UNAC) demands:
No U.S. or NATO
intervention in the internal affairs of Syria!
No War! No
Sanctions! No Intervention!
Self-determination
for the Syrian people!
12/24/12
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