Syrians continue to suffer as major world powers bicker

Syria and its people continue to suffer as the West continues to play its power game with Russia. The US, British and French air strikes on three Syrian sites on April 14, claiming they are associated with the Syrian government forces' alleged chemical attack in Douma in eastern Ghouta, was without any justification of international law or authorization of the UN Security Council. The West has done it before, in Iraq and Libya for instance, and may do it again.

In the case of Iraq, the West's claim that Saddam Hussein possessed "weapons of mass destruction" was at best, totally false or at worst, beautifully fabricated. In Libya's case, the West managed to convince Russia and China that its mission was to supply "humanitarian aid" to the people of Libya so the two countries abstained from a Security Council resolution on a "no fly zone".

But Moscow and Beijing were soon shocked to see the West launch a NATO mission to overthrow the Muammar Gadhafi regime.