An article published by the American magazine Newsweek blamed the suffering and destruction in Syria on the United States and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The article written by Elias Khoury and Nabil Khoury - a master's student in public policy and an emergency doctor respectively - stated that current US President Joe Biden continued the same approach that former President George W. Bush took in 2004 by classifying the Syrian government's behavior as a "national emergency." .
The authors said that Biden's continued adoption of this classification comes at a time of rising strife in Syria, with the civil war raging for more than a decade and punctuated by excessive inflation in the economy, widespread poverty almost everywhere, a chronic shortage of energy, and the depreciation of the lira. .
As for the human losses of this economic turmoil, they are "staggering", as the article described, which indicates that about 90% of Syrians are currently languishing in poverty.
According to the article, Biden appears to see the Syrian government as the main cause of these overlapping crises, but he turns a blind eye to addressing "the role his country played in destroying Syria."
The authors cite, for example, the "severe" sanctions imposed by Washington on Syria since 2020, "measures codified in the notorious Caesar Act, which targets anyone involved in commercial transactions with the Syrian government."
These measures effectively prevent the international community from helping government officials in Syria rebuild basic services and infrastructure, the authors add.
The authors conclude by saying that Biden has a habit of blaming the Assad government, but at the same time he covers up his country's "countless" interventions in Syria.
In their article, the two stressed the need for US officials to address the "complicity" of their government, and considered that anything otherwise is "pure hypocrisy and deception as well."