Syria Counting the Minutes

The world cannot enlighten peace

The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, has questioned the legality of a likely U.S. military action in Syria. The head of the UN has stated that the use of force against a country is only legal when done in self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, or has been authorized by the Security Council of the organization International.

This reaction sets U.S. efforts in an even more uncomfortable situation occur after the defection of NATO military action to draft and after the British Parliament vetoed the participation of your country. The front against military strike is now more vigorous and U.S. has begun to be closer to a world rejected intervention if materialize.

A few days ago it was different and it is likely that the balance of U.S. diplomacy feel they have lost valuable time. On Saturday, the same day the group of UN inspectors left Damascus, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, said he felt comfortable launching an attack on the Syrian regime to punish the gas attack that ended the lives of over a thousand people in a suburb of the Syrian capital.

However, the only action in place to stop the civil war in Syria is the U.S. that originates and is of a military nature. The truth is that for two years and a half, and then 100 people dead and 2 million refugees, the central problem is not U.S. and its foreign policy intermittent and unclear in Arab countries but Syria, i.e, a bloody conflict that opposes tyranny 40 years in power and a people who have gone from peaceful opposition to arms.

Now Egypt, Tunisia and Libya but before put into the discussion not only the future of the Arab spring, i.e. the nature of the forces that overthrow the satraps, which in many cases do not pass the standards to be considered democratic choices. In this lack of projects that aspire to become agitated by the republics to single-party governments or dictatorships, is the inability to transform the times in political communities with clear rules and democratic institutions. The lack of new times is taking these processes to the old days.

In the case of Syria, the problem is not even the future is the present serious, when a country divided and bleeding become the point of intersection of omissions and hesitations that chain, built the current scenario: lack of immediate support from the European Union to the slovenliness opposition forces and mechanisms against pressure on the Assad regime enters a negotiated solution logic, the lack of a commitment to the United Nations to adopt an instrument of effective policy intervention, the long observation of U.S. diplomacy in the conflict and subsequent delayed reaction from a logic of war that seeks to return to the bombing of the former Yugoslavia.

As the world organizes geopolitical and realpolitik spreading its wings, the world begins to count the minutes of military intervention that will bring more blood and less peace. Unfortunately, all the institutions of a world powerful, intelligent and comprehensive can not light a moment of peace to a suffering people four decades ago.