Online Activists Lament Syrian Chemical Weapons as Red Line
The death toll in Syria has reached nearly 25,000 people. Mass crimes and massacres have been committed in broad daylight. Many Syrian and fellow Arab online activists are angered at global inaction, especially President Obama’s recent statement that the use of chemical weapons would cross a “red line.” Activists on the ground are fearful that the president’s remarks will be interpreted in Damascus as carte blanche to continue to kill as long as chemical weapons are not used.
On August 26, a few days after Obama’s statement, Assad forces massacred more than 300 innocent civilians in Darya, a Damascus suburb. Kuwaiti author, Manour Al Mouhrab, wrote on Twitter that Obama's statement sanctioned the increasing death toll in Syria:
https://twitter.com/MALMUHAREB/status/240139122688270336
Obama’s statement that he is not going to intervene in Syria unless the regime uses chemical weapons has raised the death toll of martyrs in Syria into the hundreds. It sounds like a green light to kill people.
Another Kuwaiti online activist, who calls herself, Kuwatia, tweeted:
https://twitter.com/KUWTIYA/status/237618111115849728
Obama: "We are not going to intervene militarily in Syria, but if Assad uses chemical weapons, then the situation will change." 25,000 murdered and they have no value!
In a recent article published on the online forum Alhewar.com, entitled: “The Syrian people are disappointed in you Mr. Obama,” Abdul Razak Eid, a Syrian author and secular leftist, described his disappointment in the current administration’s stance towards Syria:
راهنا على دورك كثيرا في قيادة الدولة الأعظم في العالم عند انتخابك ، لقيادة الدولة الأعظم ليس عسكريا فحسب بل وسياسيا وعلميا وتقنيا الخ
We believed very much in your ability to lead the greatest country in the world. Your country’s greatness is not shown militarily, but politically, scientifically, and technologically.
عندما انتخبت رئيسا اعتبرنا نحن الشعوب التي تعيش في ظروف العبودية والإذلال والمهانة أنه أتى لقيادة عالمنا واحد منا ،حيث يحمل لون الإنسانية المعذبة التي تشبه عذاباتنا كشعوب مستعبدة ومستعمرة من قبل عصابات مافيوية متوحشة استولت على أوطاننا، عصابات من نماذج تتخطى كل قبح وبشاعة العنصرية التي عاشتها بلادكم ...
When you were elected president, we, as a nation were occupied by cruel gangs and we were living in slavery and humiliation. We believed that someone like you, who descends from a people that has directly experienced suffering similar to our suffering because of their color, would rule the world with a greater understanding that the ugliness and racism of our country exceeds the ugliness and racism of your country’s past.
إن الأنظمة الديكتاتورية المجرمة لا تحسب حسابا إلا لدول عظمى قوية كبلدكم ....لكن مواقفكم المترددة وغير الحاسمة، ومن ثم حسمها المأساوي بأنكم ضد استخدام السلاح الكيماوي فقط ...عمّق شعور شعبنا الفاجع بأنه وحده ...وليس له في هذا العالم سوى الله ...حيث أصبح شعاره الرئيسي (مالنا غيرك يا ألله)، لكن بعد ذلك تأتي (الفوبيا الغربية) ...... ...فاسمح لي ياسيادة الرئيس أن أردد مع شعبي أمام خذلانكم الديموقراطي لشعبنا السوري شعاره: (يا ألله مالنا غيرك يا ألله ...!!!)
Criminal and dictatorial regimes do not fear anyone, except greater countries like yours. But your hesitant and indeterminate stance revealed by your statements that you will only oppose the use of chemical weapons, has left a deepened feeling of abandonment amongst our people. Our people now think that there is no one left, except God. The Syrian slogan that has emerged is “We only have God,” and the Western cowardice calls this extremism. Allow me Mr. President, to say that you have disappointed us and “We have no one else but God.”
