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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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