UN abandons Syrians

The UN Security Council condemned the violence of the Syrian regime against its rebelling population on Wednesday evening but failed to pass a resolution. It is sparing Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and abandoning the oppressed people to their fate, the left-liberal daily Le Quotidien admonishes: "The Libyan precedent is deterring the members of the UN Security Council and dooming every initiative to failure. Bashar al-Assad is happily watching support for him grow in the Arab world. He is above all the guarantee for an extremely fragile stability in the region and a valuable mediator with hot-tempered Iran. The Syrian president is playing this card to the full by promising that the Middle East will plunge into conflict between Sunnis and Shiites should his regime fall. ... Once again, it is the people who suffer the consequences of these power games. The Syrians can give up hope of help from the international community. They will have to get used to fighting on their own."

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