Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) condemns the imminent attack on Syria. The US and UK are planning to launch military strikes, with the backing from their allies like Saudi Arabia, against Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons near Damascus recently.
While we strongly oppose all use of chemical weapons, the alleged chemical weapon attack in Damascus should not be used as the pretext for military intervention. This is not a new story. We have witnessed before for the last decade how military intervention by the West in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Military intervention had only exaggerated the misery of the people in these countries by bringing more catastrophic bloodshed.
What the US and its allies are doing now is yet again to by-pass the United Nations to launch a military invasion on Syria, making it another Iraq. Military aggression led by western imperialist forces will not help to stop the already bloody civil war and increase the level of destruction of the lives of Syrian people. When former UK prime minister, who is now the special envoy for Middle East Quartet, Tony Blair claimed that by holding back military intervention in Syria could produce a ’’nightmare scenario’’ for the West, he must have forgotten the “nightmare scenario” created by the US-UK allied forces in Iraq. From the past experiences of western intervention, such military operation would only breed more terrorism and produce more miseries to the people in country that being attacked.
The latest plan to attack Syria is not meant to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Syria or has anything to do with democracy, but to advance the strategic interests of the West in the Middle East.
Stop the plan to attack Syria! The crisis in Syria needs a political solution not Imperialist intervention!
Parti Sosialis Malaysia
Released by
Choo Chon Kai
PSM International Bureau
Central Committee Member
PSM