Siniora to Obama: Step Up in Syria, Mr. President

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Lebanese former PM and Head of al-Mustaqbal Parliamentary bloc, Fouad Siniora, addressed the American president Barack Obama, and called on him to launch a military strike against Syria to save the Syrian people who held weapons to face "the atrocity of the regime and its gangs."
In his article that was published by Foreign Policy newspaper Tuesday, September 10, Siniora considered the Geneva conference as fruitless, and reminded the US with the moral commitment to settle the course of the Syrian crisis.
"It is high time to change the course that allowed large Iranian intervention in the Middle East," Siniora wrote.
"There has already been international intervention in Syria -- on the side of the regime. In stark contrast to the many countries that expressed moral sympathy with the Syrian people, Russia, Iran, and Hizbullah have not hesitated to bolster Assad's killing machine. They have provided financial aid, heavy weapons, and military personnel to better assist Assad in killing his own people."
Ignoring the Lebanese interests, Siniora deemed that the United States has a strategic interest in ending the conflict in Syria.

"The continuation of the war is breeding terrorism and leading to the expansion of Iranian hegemony in the region. These results are contrary to US strategic interests, and the idea that a continuation of the war is somehow in the interests of Washington is absurd. The continuation of the war and this humanitarian tragedy is but an invitation for problems to fester and spread -- not just in Syria, but in the Middle East and beyond."

Siniora urged the US to launch the military strike against Syria, claiming that the chemical assault in Damascus was a direct result to the impunity granted to the Syrian regime.

"The world -- and the West in particular -- has a great moral obligation to stop Assad's hateful campaign. In the 21st century, no government should be allowed to use such horrible weapons against its own citizens. The recent, horrific chemical weapons attack is the direct result of the impunity that the Syrian regime is enjoying. Assad has proved that he is willing to slaughter Syrians by the thousands and destroy millennia-old cities to maintain his grip on power. He is a danger to the Syrian people -- and to the entire globe."

Fouad Siniora concluded by stressing that avoiding the military strike will send disastrous messages to the "tyrants," suggesting that the US support the moderate opposition forces to achieve the desirable change in Syria.

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