Between July and December 2014, the Democratic Obama
Administration intervened militarily in Syria in a more overt and direct way.
As the secular left Syrian Communist Party noted in a Sept. 24, 2014 statement,
“in the early morning of Sept. 23, 2014,” the U.S. war machine “with its allies
and agents began…armed actions on the territories of Syrian Arab Republic.”
According to this same Syrian Communist Party statement:
“…These actions are flagrant violation of international law
that prevents the violation of independent state national sovereignty…All
pretexts of US imperialism, even the fighting of terrorism, cannot justify
national sovereignty violation….”
A Dec. 17, 2014 Reuters article also noted that between late
September and Dec. 15, 2014, “the United States carried out 488 air strikes
in Syria…according to U.S. military data;” and although “Lieutenant General
James Terry…told reporters that the strikes had hurt the Islamic State” (which armed foreign Islamist fighters are attempting to set up in Syrian territory they've occupied in recent years), Baath regime leader
Bashar “Assad said this month the U.S.-led campaign had made no difference and Islamic
State supporters in Syria say the air strikes have helped the group
win support among residents and recruit fighters.” Between Sept. 23 and Nov.
21, 2014, however, more than 900 people, including around 50 civilians, were
killed in Syria by the air strikes of the Pentagon and its allies, according to
the data collected by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that politically
opposes Assad’s Baath regime.
The armed right-wing group
of religiously sectarian Islamic fundamentalist fighters in
Syria—ISIS--continued to attack the city of Kobane in the Kurdish-populated
northwestern region of Syria between July and December 2014. But according to an Oct. 12, 2014 statement by
the secular left Tudeh party of Iran, “the struggle of the Kobane people” was
“not only against the ISIS’s professional murderers, but Kobane” was “also
indirectly under attack from the reactionary regimes in region, and” was “paying
for” the “refusal to align themselves with the policies of the Turkish
government and the Arab Kingdoms in the Persian Gulf, led by the United States,
for toppling the ruling government in Syria.” The Tudeh Party’s Oct. 12, 2014
also stated:
“Over the past few years, the people of Kobane have not
cooperated with the global imperialism’s policy of `regime change’ in Syria. By
keeping their relative sovereignty and as an autonomous community, in which
green shoots of popular democratic currents could be found, and while advancing
the struggle for democracy and national rights, the Kobane people had been
opposing the United States’ plan for `regime change’ in Syria… Kobane’s
militant women and men are single-handedly fighting a struggle for the survival
of their community against the attacks of one of the most reactionary and
destructive forces, which has been borne out of imperialist policies of
aggression, and nurtured by the local reactionary regimes. The role of women in
the resistance movement of the people of Kobane is significant and exemplary.
The tragedy in Kobane exposes the inhumane role of those who claim to be the`champions
of democracy and human rights’, and above all, the United States and Britain
that in recent years, by using various forces in the spectrum of the so called `political
Islam’, directly or indirectly have destroyed the popular movements… Erdogan,
Turkey’s President, has…allowed the transportation and concentration of Salafist
and Jihadist forces and ISIS terrorists through the border, and their bloody
war against the Syrian government.
“On Oct. 2 [2014], the world’s media reported the United
States Vice-President Joe Biden’s statement clearly indicating that the US
allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have played an
essential role in the creation and strengthening of ISIS by pouring billions of
dollars of money, arms and equipment… Tudeh Party of Iran calls for the
immediate and direct involvement of the United Nation in equipping,
facilitating and transfer of international peace-keeping forces (instead of
NATO) for saving Kobane, and replacing the NATO forces under American
leadership by that of the United Nation’s…”
In a November 2014 speech, the Deputy General Secretary of
the secular left Lebanese Communist Party, Marie Nassif-Debs also asserted that
since September 2014 the U.S. war machine was actually “bombing the cities in
Iraq and Syria not to defeat ISIS but to keep the two conflicting powers” in
the Syrian conflict “ able to fight and destroy” and “at the same time the
multinational petrol companies, on their head the American ones, buy petrol
which is seized by the fascist religious forces in Iraq and Syria and big part
of this petrol is smuggled through the Turkish system.”
Between July and December 2014, the total number of people
in Syria who have been killed, wounded or compelled to become refugees since
March 2011 (and since the U.S. government began to covertly train armed
Syrian rebels in 2011) has continued to increase. As Reuters reported in a Dec.
17, 2014 article by Alexander Dziadosz:
“More than 120,000 fighters supporting Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the country's civil war since it began in
2011, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday…In total, more than 200,000
people have been killed and millions more have fled their homes….Some 11,000
members of government forces and loyalist militias had been killed in the five
months since Assad delivered an inauguration speech for a third presidential
term [in July 2014]…The United Nations estimated in August [2014] more than 190,000 people had
died in the conflict.”
In a Dec. 19, 2014 Reuters article, Oliver Holmes also
noted that “one million people have been wounded during Syria’s civil war and
diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients,
the World Health Organization’s Syria representative said;” and that “the
United Nations” has recently “called…for more than $8.4 billion to help nearly
18 million people in need in Syria and across the region in 2015.”
(end of epilogue)
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