DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’ of her presidency, if elected, resetting the policy to emphasise the ‘murderous’ nature of the Assad regime, a foreign policy adviser with her campaign has said.
She considers that Obama has gone soft on Syria and is set to put the removal of Assad actively at the top of the US agenda. Jeremy Bash, who served as chief of staff for the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, said Clinton would step up the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and work to get Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, ‘out of there’.
For good measure he told the Daily Telegraph: ‘A Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the world exactly what the Assad regime is: . . . It is a murderous regime that violates human rights; that has violated international law; used chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children.’
Clinton will break up the remnants of the Obama-Kerry-Lavrov attempt to see joint action by the US and Russia against the now renamed Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS. Bash has now predicted ‘that a Syria policy review will be one of the first items of business for the national security team.’
However, as Obama’s reign comes to an end US policy is already changing rapidly with the US and France launching major air strikes on cities like Manbij, currently held by ISIS, in which ISIS has emerged stronger, since these raids killed hundreds of civilians and no terrorists.
The Damascus government, which is currently working for a peaceful city of Aleppo, has condemned in the strongest terms the targeting of innocent civilians by the ‘so-called international coalition.’ In two recent letters addressed to head of the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary-General, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry of Damascus said that French warplanes, working within the so-called ‘international coalition’ led by the US, perpetrated an unjust massacre on the territories of Syria near the Syrian-Turkish borders, targeting Toukhan al-Kubra village to the north of Manbij, killing whole families and demolishing houses there.
‘The French unjust aggression claimed the lives of more than 120 civilians, most of them are children, women and elderly, in addition to tens of wounded citizens, the majority of them are also children and women as reports say that the fate of scores of other civilians who are still under debris are unknown too,’ said the letters.
The letters went on to say that the French aggression comes after one day of a US aggression carried out by US warplanes last Monday which perpetrated a similar bloody massacre by bombarding the Syrian city of Manbij, claiming the lives of more than 20 civilians and injuring tens of others.
‘The government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemns, with the strongest terms, the two bloody massacres perpetrated by the French and US warplanes and those affiliated to the so-called international coalition which send their missiles and bombs to the civilians instead of directing them to the terrorist gangs… Syria also affirms that those who want to combat terrorism seriously should coordinate with the Syrian government and army,’ the Ministry said.
It went on to say: ‘The Syrian government affirms that those massacres, crimes and destruction will not deter Syria from continuing its duties in combating terrorism and working to realise a political solution to the crisis in Syria through a Syrian-Syrian dialogue, led by Syria and without any foreign intervention.’
The US is now restoring the removal of the just re-elected Assad right to the top of its agenda, no matter how many civilians have got to be killed in the process, while the French government thinks it can fight terrorism at home by killing Arab men, women and children abroad. In fact they are acting as a recruitment agency for ISIS and for more bombings inside France itself!
UK workers must demand the withdrawal of all US, French and UK troops from the Gulf and the Middle East, and support the victory of Syria under Assad against imperialism, since Syria’s victory will be ours as well!
