US may trigger more terror attacks

The United States seems determined to embroil the world in yet more terrorist attacks by further violence in the Middle East. Sean Spicer was right when he said that President Trump was doing his best to destablise the Middle East Chemical weapons are back in the news, with the US announcing moves to try to unseat the Syrian President Assad for allegedly authorising the use of Sarin gas, a potent organophosphate which is part of the US weapons arsenal. Many thousands of tonnes of Sarin are held in US stockpiles so it is hardly credible for the US to claim to be upset that the weapons have been used.The US is the only major power which has not ratified a clause in the Hague convention prohibiting the use of poison gasses in war. This is an other example of the US and its allies not thinking things through. Removing President Assad would likely strengthen terrorism in the Middle East and around the world – as did removing Saddam Hussein from Iraq and Colonel Gaddafi from Libya. Any move to attack Syria will breach international law just as much as the attacks on Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. America doesn't seem to learn. It lost wars in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan, now it wants to set the world aflame!

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