Obama's "red line" warnings merely aimed to seek new pretext for Syria intervention

Once again, Western powers are digging deep for excuses to intervene
militarily in another conflict-torn Middle East country, as U.S.
President Barack Obama warned Monday that the use of chemical weapons
by Syria's government wouldchange his "calculus."
With the hypocritical talksof eliminating weapons ofmass destruction
in Iraq and protecting civilians in Libya still ringing in the ears,
such "red line" threats seem to have almost become a signal for the
United States and some of its Western allies to sharpen their weapons
before exercising interventionism.
The world should stay vigilant that these dangerously irresponsible
remarks would do nothing but effectively escalate the current bloody
situation in Syria and gravely tarnish the prospects of settling
Syria's 17-month-old crisisthrough political means.
It is true that the UN and Arab League-led mediation efforts on the
ground have yet to yield satisfactory results to broker a ceasefire
between government troops and armed rebels in Syria.
However, when continuous radicalism-fueled roadside bomb attacks,
along with heartrending poverty and chaos, have nearly killed the
hopes for stability andprosperity in Somalia, Iraqand Libya, nations
that have suffered West-led military interventions, foreign crusades
would simply incur even more violence, hostilities and hatred in
Syria.
Apart from being ineffective to bring real peace, military
interventions by the United States and its Western partners are always
interests-driven and highly selective.
It is not difficult to find that, under the disguise
ofhumanitarianism, the United States has always tried to smash
governments it considers as threats to its so-called national
interests and relentlessly replace them with those that are
Washington-friendly.
That easily explains why both Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's
Muammar Gaddafi, who once worked closely with the United States, were
later depicted as brutal dictators with the people's blood dipping
through their fingers.
Right now, as conflicts between government troops and rebel forces
still rage in Syria, nations around the world should continue to build
on the progress that has been achieved by outgoing international envoy
Kofi Annan and his team.
Any attempt to scrap the chances for a political settlement and to
turn Syria into the next testingground for Western weapons must be
guarded against and ruledout.
China, being acutely aware of the harm of foreign interventions, has
always stood firmly against them and supported the political
settlement of all crises.
Thus, the Chinese government is keen to continue working with the
international community to back UN-backed negotiations aimed at
bringing real and lasting peace to Syria.