Jumblat Slams Int'l Community: Prices Paid by Syrian People Less Costly Than Returning to Pre-Revolution Era
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Thursday launched a scathing attack on “the so-called international community” over its reluctance to support the Syrian people, but noted that “the prices that are being paid today by the Syrian people remain less costly than returning to the pre-revolution era.”
Criticizing remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who on Wednesday urged the Syrian opposition to resist efforts by "extremists" to hijack the revolution, Jumblat said the U.S. official had overlooked the fact that “international reluctance to support the opposition … and acknowledge the Syrian National Council are the main two reasons behind the deterioration of the situation in Syria towards the current killing, destruction and sabotage.”
“The intellectual and theoretical luxury that the international community is practicing as Syria burns from one end to the other offers proves once again that the systematic plot to destroy Syria is proceeding in full swing,” Jumblat added.
“The first and only victim is the Syrian people … who are confronting the machine of death and destruction on their own and with an unprecedented courage,” Jumblat said, noting that the Syrian people “realize that the prices that are being paid today remain less costly than returning to the pre-revolution era.”
The PSP leader wished “if only the so-called international community would remove from its record a hallmark of shame that is unprecedented in the history of humanity.”
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