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சுமார் ஒன்பதரை ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னால் உலகின் மாபெரும் மன்றமான ஐ.நா.சபையில் 192 நாடுகளின் பிரதிநிதிகள், ராஜதந்திரிகள்,சர்வதேச ஊடகத்துறையினர் அனைவரது முன்னிலையிலும் மேலே காணும் படத்தில் ஈராக் என எழுதப்பட்டுள்ள திரையில் தான் ஈராக்கின் மீது யுத்தம் தொடுப்பதற்கான அமெரிக்க நியாயம் காட்சிப் படிமமாக விளக்கப்பட்டது. ஈராக்கில் மனிதப் பேரழிவு ஆயுதங்கள் பதுக்கப்பட்டிருக்கும் இடங்கள், அவை ஓரிடத்தில் இருந்து மற்றொரு இடத்துக்கு கடத்தப்பட்டதற்கான தடயங்கள் வரைபடங்களுடனும், புள்ளிவிபரங்களுடனும் காட்சிப்படுத்தப்பட்டன. கொலின் பவல் இந்த நாடகத்தை இயக்கி விளக்கமளித்தார். இதை வாய்பிளந்து, வீணீர்வடித்து பார்த்து முடித்த ஐ.நா.சமூகம் உலக மறுபங்கீட்டு பங்குபாகப் பிரச்சனையில் அமெரிக்காவுக்கு ஒப்புதல் அளிக்க மறுத்தது.முக்கியமாக பிரான்ஸும், ரசியாவும்,சீனாவும், அரைகுறையாக ஜேர்மனியும் இதை எதிர்த்தன.எனினும் அமெரிக்கா தன்னிச்சையாக நாடு பிடிக்கும் காட்டுமிராண்டி நவீன காலனியாதிக்க யுத்தத்தைக் கட்டவிழ்த்தது.
மத்திய கிழக்கில் முதலாளித்துவ வளர்ச்சி பெற்ற, ஒப்பீட்டில் பெண்கள் சமநிலை பெற்ற, மனித நாகரீகத்தின் மாபெரும் சின்னங்களில் ஒன்றான அந்தப் பெரும் தேசம் இன்று துவம்சம் செய்யப்பட்டுவிட்டது.சீரழிந்து சின்னாபின்னமாகிவிட்டது.
மரணத்தறுவாயில் இருக்கும் ஏகபோக முதலாளித்துவத்தின் மீளமுடியா நெருக்கடிக்கு உலகமறுபங்கீட்டு நாடு பிடிக்கும் காட்டுமிராண்டி யுத்தங்கள்,ஆட்சிக்கவி்ழ்ப்புகள், ஆட்சித் தலைவர் படுகொலைகள் என்பதைத் தவிர இந்த இழிகுலத்தோரிடம் வேறு வழி எதுவுமில்லை.
ஆக அடுத்த படையெடுப்பை பாலஸ்தீனத்துக்கும், சிரியாவுக்கும், ஈரானுக்கும் எதிராகத் தொடுக்க ஏகாதிபத்திய இழிகுலத்தின் தலைவன் ஒபாமாவும், அவனது இஸ்ரேலியத் தளபதிகளும் தயாராகிவருகின்றனர்.
கடந்த எட்டுநாள் காசா ஒத்திகை முடிந்த கையோடு, சிரியா தன் சொந்த நாட்டு மக்களுக்கு எதிராக இரசாயன ஆயுதங்களைப் பாவிப்பதை முன்கூட்டியே தடுப்பதற்கு அமெரிக்காவும், நேட்டோவும் களமிறங்கிவிட்டன. துருக்கியைப் பாதுகாப்பதே நோக்கமென பொய்யுரைக்கின்றன.
ஏகபோக முதலாளித்துவத்தின் மீளமுடியா நெருக்கடி, உலகெங்கும் உழைக்கும் மக்கள் மீதும், ஏழை எளிய மக்கள் மீதும், நடுத்தரவர்க்கத்தின் மேல்டுக்கினரையும் கூட வாழ வல்லமையற்றவராக ஆக்கிவிட்டது.
அடுத்தடுத்து கட்டவிழ்க்க அமெரிக்கா திட்டமிடும் யுத்தங்கள் இந்நிலைமையை மென்மேலும் கடினமாக்கி ஒரு தலைமுறையின் வளர்ச்சியைப் பின் தள்ளிவிடும்.
ஆதலால் உலகமறுபங்கீட்டு நாடு பிடிக்கும் காட்டுமிராண்டி தேசிய ஆக்கிரமிப்பு அநீதி யுத்தங்களைத் தடுத்து நிறுத்த உலகத் தொழிலாளர்களே, ஒடுக்கப்பட்ட தேசங்களே ஒன்று சேருவோம்.
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NATIONAL SECURITY
Obama Warns Syria on Chemical Weapons
By Rachel Oswald, Global Security Newswire
Updated: December 5, 2012 | 10:03 a.m.
December 5, 2012 | 10:02 a.m.
President Obama says the "world is watching."
[This article was originally published in Global Security Newswire, produced independently by National Journal Group under contract with the Nuclear Threat Initiative. NTI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group working to reduce global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.]
President Obama on Monday warned that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would be “held
accountable” for any chemical weapons used in the country’s bloody 20-month civil war.
Obama’s threat of unspecified “consequences” followed by hours a similar Monday assertion by
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Syria's use of chemical weapons would cross a
“red line”--a term previously used by the president in addressing the situation in Syria. While
Clinton did not offer specifics, the red line is taken to mean the point at which outside military
intervention in Syria becomes possible.
The new statements by the Obama administration come as anonymous U.S. government officials
have told news organizations of troubling new intelligence indicating that forces loyal to Assad
might be readying to put chemical arms into the field.
“I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command, the world is
watching,” Obama said in a speech at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in
Washington. “The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable.”
Damascus has said repeatedly that it has no intention of mounting chemical strikes against
domestic opposition forces, but it has left open the door for employing such unconventional
weapons to ward off a possible foreign aggressor. Still, there is the worry that Assad could
employ his sizable chemical arsenal--composed of hundreds of tons of blister and nerve agents,
along with various delivery platforms--against Syrian rebels if he determines he has no other
options to stave off regime failure.
Speaking at a symposium commemorating the two decades of nonproliferation gains
accomplished through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, Obama promised
in his second term to continue his high-profile efforts to secure nuclear and other WMD
materials.
Since 1992, the CTR initiative has made considerable gains in securing weapons of mass
destruction in former Soviet states, including the removal of all nuclear warheads from Belarus,
Ukraine, and Kazakhstan; deactivation of more than 7,600 nuclear warheads; and destruction of
thousands of delivery platforms. In recent years, the program has expanded beyond onetime
Soviet republics, supporting disposal of chemical weapons in Albania and efforts to secure
potential biological weapons ingredients held in African laboratories. The total count of
participating nations is about 80, Obama said.
Despite these advances, the president warned “there is still much--too much material, nuclear,
chemical, biological--being stored without enough protection.”
“There are still terrorists and criminal gangs doing everything they can to get their hands on
them,” said Obama, who in his first term was instrumental in advocating for two high-profile
global nuclear-security summits that focused on building broad-multinational support for
tightening protections around atomic substances. “And make no mistake: If they get it, they will
use it, potentially killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people."
The ongoing danger that terrorists might acquire and use an unconventional weapon means the
U.S. government will continue funding its threat reduction programs, Obama told the forum's
attendees, including CTR architects Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and former Sen. Sam Nunn,
D-Ga. “Even as we make some very tough fiscal choices, we’re going to keep investing in these
programs because our national security depends on it.”
The United States through the CTR program has provided Russia with more than $7 billion in
monetary aid, technical expertise, and technology to secure Soviet-era weapons of mass
destruction. That cooperation occurs under a soon-to-expire umbrella agreement that Russia
dislikes for various reasons, including the oversight provided to Washington and liability rules
that heavily favor the U.S. government and contractors in the event of an accident during a
project.
Russia announced in October it did not intend to renew its participation in the CTR program
when the underlying bilateral accord with Washington lapses in June, raising concerns about the
future of U.S.-Russian nonproliferation cooperation.
Obama, however, sounded optimistic about the likelihood of striking a compromise with
Moscow. “Russia has said that our current agreement hasn’t kept pace with the changing
relationship between our countries, to which we say, let’s update it, let’s work with Russia as an
equal partner.”
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Patriot missiles to arrive in Turkey in 15 days
22 November 2012 - 12:36pm
NATO will send shipments of Patriot missiles to Turkey in 15 days to protect its aerospace, as ordered by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Four missiles batteries will arrive at Port Iskenderun and will be operated by 160 German specialists. Missile complexes will be deployed at the Hatai and Kilis Provinces near the Syrian border.
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
BRUSSELS — NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday endorsed a decision to send Patriot missile
batteries to Turkey, and expressed “grave” concerns about reports of heightened activity at
Syria’s chemical weapons sites.
Turkey, which has supported the Syrian opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s government,
requested the batteries last month, fearing that it might be vulnerable to a Syrian missile attack,
possibly with chemical weapons.
“Turkey asked for NATO’s support, and we stand with Turkey in a spirit of strong solidarity,”
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the alliance, said in Brussels. “To anyone who
would want to attack Turkey, we say, ‘Don’t even think about it.’ ”
In approving the decision, NATO said it would “augment” Turkey’s air defenses even as it
sought to underscore the defensive nature of the mission, which it said was not intended to
establish a buffer zone in northern Syria or a no-fly zone over the country.
The missile batteries, drawn from American, German and Dutch forces, will not be operational in
Turkey for several weeks, diplomats said. NATO’s military arm will work with the nations as
they decide how many batteries to deploy in Turkey and for how long.
NATO couched the decision as a statement of its resolve, but Mr. Rasmussen expressed a
cautious, even minimalist, vision of the alliance’s role in dealing with humanitarian crises
beyond its members’ borders. Mr. Rasmussen described the fighting in Syria, which has killed
more than 40,000 people, as “absolutely outrageous” and said nations had a responsibility to find
a political solution. But in contrast, he said, “NATO’s responsibility is to protect populations
and territories of NATO allied nations,” and he emphasized that the alliance would not intervene
in Syria to stop the violence.
“We have no intention to intervene militarily,” he said.
On Tuesday, NATO foreign ministers discussed reports by the United States that the Assad
government might be taking steps to use chemical weapons and agreed that Mr. Rasmussen
should read a statement expressing NATO’s concern. But the effect of that statement was
somewhat undercut when France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, asserted during a news
conference that such reports were unconfirmed.
The Patriot batteries in Turkey will be linked to NATO’s air defense system and will be under the
alliance’s command and control. If a Syrian missile were to be fired at Turkey, longer-range radar
systems would identify the missile’s trajectory and cue the Patriot batteries to take
countermeasures.
The response by the missile batteries would be nearly automatic, firing interceptor missiles to
destroy the target by ramming into it, a tactic the military calls “hit to kill.” At least some of the
Patriot batteries will be PAC-3 versions, the system’s most modern.
When used for antimissile defense, the Patriot interceptors fired by the batteries have a range of
16 miles, which means they would not be able to cross into Syrian airspace, according to a
NATO diplomat. In the event of a Syrian missile attack and a successful Patriot intercept, the
debris would fall on Turkish territory. But NATO officials said that would be far better than
allowing it to proceed to its target.
Surveys are being conducted of 10 potential sites, mostly in southeastern Turkey, each of which
could be defended by one or more Patriot batteries. But the alliance lacks enough batteries to
cover all of the sites, so fewer will be protected, a NATO official said.
Russia, which has frustrated efforts to pressure the Assad government, has complained about the
Turkish request for the missiles, apparently fearing that it might be a prelude to direct NATO
involvement in the conflict. But as it became clear that the alliance planned to proceed anyway,
Russian officials tempered their criticism.
“We are not trying to interfere,” Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said at a news
conference at NATO headquarters. “We are just attracting attention to the fact that threats should
not be overstated.”
Mr. Lavrov, in Brussels for a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, also played down reports of
increased activity at Syria’s chemical weapons sites, saying that his government had previously
asked the Assad government about the “rumors” and had been told they were baseless.
