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Sacramento
Progressive Alliance
The Sacramento Progressive Alliance opposes U.S. military
intervention in the civil war in Syria.
The U.S. and the international community must condemn the use of chemical
weapons on civilians in Syria and support the United Nations inspectors’
efforts to discover the perpetrators of such violence. But even if it is
determined that chemical weapons were used by the Assad regime, a unilateral
air strike by the United States would not cease that threat. U.S. air power
cannot surgically take out those individuals who can deploy such weapons.
What it will do is kill many innocent civilians. And our experience in
Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrates that United States troops on the ground may
only serve to increase the level of violence in civil wars.
We believe that the international community should provide
humanitarian aid to the millions of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, and
elsewhere in the region. In
addition, the U.S. and all other countries should engage in the necessary
diplomacy to press Russian and Iran to participate in a mobilization of the
U.N. Security Council to expand its future monitoring of chemical stocks, as
well as increasing pressure toward holding the long promised peace conference
in Geneva designed to engage Syrian parties, military leaders, and political
players to promote and end to the violence in Syria.
Passed. Sept.6, 2013.
Recorded by Dr. Duane E. Campbell
The Sacramento Progressive Alliance is a 5,000 member active
grassroots membership organization in the Sacramento Valley. We are affiliated
with United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the largest peace and justice
coalition in the United States.
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