Winners as losers

The government in Syria seems to be very happy these days. It can go on killing its own people by a few hundreds every day. There will be no immediate US attack. But the winners in Damascus are really the losers. And it gets worse every day. No one has a license to kill. The decision by president Obama to take one step back is very good. It creates time for reflection. Then we see that the situation in Syria is unacceptable. It was so before the gas attack and it is the same after the gas attack. If we use the term “unacceptable” here, what does it mean? For the government in Damascus the situation is obviously not only acceptable but nice and joyful. The situation is unacceptable if we relate it to the world population and to basic human values. The world opinion about mass murder is negative. And the Syrian leaders can not change that attitude. So the more people they accept to kill, the more they will be criticized. We must respect basic human values in order to be able to live together. Among those values is the right to live in peace and order, in security and under the rule of law. These rules are violated in Syria. Millions of citizens suffer directly. A few groups hope to profit from the lawlessness. The overwhelming majority of the world population finds the situation unacceptable.