US obsession to rule stokes global chaos

DAMASCUS－The United States' quest to maintain its hegemony and a unilateral international system is stirring up chaos and instability worldwide, not least because Washington has repeatedly acted outside the framework of the UN Charter, Syrian experts said.

For the sake of its own grip on the world, the US is deliberately creating trouble, especially in countries that stand up against its hegemony and destructive policies, Syrian political expert Mohammad al-Omari told Xinhua News Agency.

Al-Omari said it has become obvious that the US has followed a strategy of provoking internal rifts and conflicts "in an effort to drown emerging countries which oppose the American policies, and push such countries toward crises and wars and preoccupy them in conflicts regionally or internationally".

"The United States does not respect the Charter of the United Nations and does not respect international organizations," al-Omari said.

"It uses these organizations as a means to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries when its interests require that."

Denouncing US foreign policy as the biggest destroyer of the international system, al-Omari said the US doesn't respect the sovereignty of other countries and violates all related UN resolutions in that regard.

Employing such bright terms and slogans as human rights and democracy, the United States aims to "achieve its own interests and its expansion at the level of the international system and the level of expanding its military bases or even interference in internal affairs of other countries," al-Omari noted.

More strife

Osama Danura, another political expert, warned that more wars and crises will break out around the world if the US' policies remain unrestrained.

"When there is no control over the American behavior, this means that wars will erupt constantly. The negative outcome of such wars, also known as postwar crises, as they are called, will increase constantly, and therefore the crisis will continue to escalate and the scenes of chaos and instability will be seen increasingly in different parts of the world," he said.

Danura said the US has carried out the most military interventions in the world, whether with incursions or by planning military coups and otherwise messing with other countries' internal affairs.

The principle of noninterference, which is one of the founding principles of the UN Charter, is not respected by the US, Danura told Xinhua.

"As soon as any crisis occurs anywhere in the world, we will find that the first party to give itself the right to intervene is the United States, which is also the first to set itself up as a custodian of democracy and human rights in the world without being asked to do so and without the support of international legitimacy," he said.

The scholar said the US spares no pains to achieve its interest, even if this comes at the expense of other countries' stability and prosperity.

Whenever there is a crisis between two countries, the US is always the first "to send forces or to issue political judgments or to intervene as a force that favors one party over another in accordance with its own interests", Danura said.

Moreover, he stressed that the US has historically played the primary role in destroying the international legal system and disrespecting UN resolutions either directly or through proxies.

The country's backup plan to create chaos and force its will on other states is the imposition of economic sanctions－another means open to it when it cannot use military force, said Danura.

"There is always a tendency to inflict economic destruction when the US military arm can't work freely or when the public opinion in the US doesn't support or is ready for a military action against a certain country very far from the territory of the United States," he added.

The United States has long been criticized for waging wars and stoking conflict across the world.

To take Afghanistan as an example, local and international rights groups suggest that close to 47,600 civilians were killed and more than double that number injured in the country during the 20 years of war, according to figures from the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Xinhua