Syria: U.S. Opens Another Pandora’s Box in the Middle East
People’s Daily
August 14, 2012
Do not reopen ‘Pandora’s box’ in the Middle East
The United States invaded Iraq nine years ago, which induced sectarian and ethnic conflict in the state. Jacques René Chirac, president of France at the time, had accused the invasion of the U.S. army as opening a “Pandora’s Box” in Iraq. Now, another evil box is about to be opened in Syria.
The Syrian crisis was quickly put to the geopolitical interests of the United States. The unshakeable goal of the United States is to change the Syrian regime, break up the Syria-Iran alliance and maintain its leading role in the Middle East.
Changing the regime of a sovereign country by external force has been the consistent foreign practice of the United States since the Cold War. The process will be cruel to the Syrian people and the consequences will be calamitous to the state and even world peace.
In the past weeks, Bashar al-Assad lost control of some important regions in Syria and Syrian reactionaries sympathized and supported by external forces gained the upper hand by murdering senior officials backing Bashar al-Assad.
The change of balance of power will trigger a time-consuming war between Syrian reactionaries and the pro-Bashar al-Assad group.
Syria is an ancient civilization. The people of Syria do not have to live as savages killing and maiming each other. If the Syrians allow themselves to be controlled by a nascent civilization whose record is killing and maiming, then they would have willingly make that choice. In the history of the Syrian is the solution of how to win the peace.