We most warmly welcome the statement of over 51 US diplomats who have urged the administration to carry out military strike and bomb Syrian government positions to force the despotic regime of President Bashar al-Assad to agree to a negotiated settlement to the five-year civil war. The diplomats in an internal memo to the State Department through the ‘dissent channel’ called for a radical shift in the administration’s Syria policy openly breaking with President Barrack Obama’s policy towards Syrian civil war. In their view, the administration’s alternative policy to work with Russia to secure a ceasefire and political solution has made little headway and being betrayed, and it is time to ‘use a judicious stand-off and air weapons’ to bring change in the situation. Most unusually the former diplomats broke their silence and came out openly to draw the attention of President Obama’s wrong strategy in Syria directly frustrating the fight against IS terrorists.We agree with the diplomats that President Obama’s military campaign against the delusion of Islamic State is being undermined by poor efforts to dislodge President Assad. We have been expressing in our editorials more than once that President Assad of Syria is a modern mass killer Hitler, and he should be targeted directly to force him leave Syria. America’s weakness in its leadership in Syria is costing the whole world dearly. Only ISIS is being helped to linger. The Syrian refugee problem would not have reached such stage of being a global crisis of human tragedy if Assad had been ousted sooner. He killed thousands of men, women and children. As many as 4.8 million people fled the country for safety of life. It is a shame for the West to have tolerated colossal human rights violations by a monster who has no respect for human life. To remain in power he has committed disaster against his people and the country. If the Syrians were not Muslims, the West would have reacted differently. The memo signed by working level diplomats underscored the lingering frustration within the administration over how to deal with a civil war that has already killed over 400.000 people. It has also flooded Europe with stream of refugees creating severe socio-political backlash. In the opinion of the diplomats, the US has so far failed to do anything effective to influence the situation. We say it firmly, the cruel killer of his own people, Assad of Syria will not enter into negotiation. Any settlement to keep him in Syria will be no settlement. He finds American policy is too cautious for any decisive action. He sees Russian help reassuring. The US Secretary of State John Kerry has issued an open warning to Russia on Syrian war few days back saying the administration’s patience is closing to its limit. Russia or no Russia the US has to show its resolve to take out brutal Assad who has destroyed a country and made its people refugees seeking global mercy. Russian itself is directly participation in bombing the opponent of Assad within Syria. The US has all the more justification as protector of human rights. To Russia human rights have no importance.The man who killed thousands, displaced nearly half of the population giving rise to the largest refugee crisis for the world, has no right to survive. Let the Western alliance move decisively to force out Assad. We are sure Russia will not take the risk for saving Assad who must not be saved.
