The Obama’s Red Line and Subsequent U.S. Missiles Attack on Syrian Military Bases: Impact on World Politics
Publication Date: 19/06/2020
Author(s): Sheriff Ghali Ibrahim, Farouk Ibrahim Bibi-Farouk , Sofolabo Dare.
Volume/Issue: Volume 3 , Issue 1 (2020)
Abstract:
The paper examines the Obama’s red-line on Syria and analyses the American attacks on Syrian military bases. Using the library research from secondary historical-descriptive approach, findings show that, the missile attacks were carried out to compliment Obama’s failure to attack Syria after the use of chemical weapon by the regime of Bashir Al-assad. The paper concludes that the Obama Red line has portrayed the inherent feature of the democrats as they oppose wars and see it as a last resort. The red line was issued as a warning, a caveat and to threaten the Syrian government not to ever apply chemical weapon on its citizens, not because Obama wanted to deploy men in boot on Syrian soil. It was also responsive as Assad under the guide of Russia agreed for the destruction of the Syrian chemical stockpiles, which eased the tension between the United States and Syria. The paper recommends among other things that, the United States should not with any state continue to support terrorist groups such as Alqaeda in fighting anywhere in the world. The world must also put a stop to Saudi-Arabia’s funding of such extremist groups within the Middle East and other regions around the world and states should not be allowed to be making use of weapons of mass destruction, as it goes contrary to the international law.
