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    Courtesy Independent.

    How action over Syria risks unsettling fragile balance of power in the Middle East

    The violence has already affected neighbouring states and strengthened the hand of jihadists

    Whatever else missile strikes on Syria do they will raise the political temperature in the whole region.

    What is unclear is whether or not the increased temperature will be temporary or permanent.

    Whatever the justification for the action by the US and its allies, it will be seen across the world

    as another American-led military intervention in the wider Middle East in the tradition of Iraq,

    Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Lebanon over the last 35 years.

    British and French military actions are being justified by David Cameron and François Hollande

    on purely moral grounds as an act of retribution for the use of poison gas against civilians in

    Damascus and to prevent it happening again. This may go down well with domestic audiences but it

    will find few believers in the Middle East. The former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski

    was reported as saying in an interview: "I am struck by how eager Great Britain and France appear

    to be in favour of military action. And I am also mindful of the fact that both of these two powers

    are former imperialist, colonialist powers in the region." The air strikes will only confirm suspicions

    of British and French motives.

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