ICongress ibaleke edolobheni ukuze igweme ukuvotela noma ukulwa nempi entsha. Abaningi babanikeli abakhulu emikhankasweni yeCongressional bangafuna amavoti Yebo. Abavoti abaningi bangafuna ukuthi Cha amavoti, uma kungenjalo ngokushesha, khona-ke ngokushesha lapho ukwethuka okubangelwa amavidiyo anqunywa amakhanda sekuphelile, okungase kube phakathi nenyanga ezayo. Kungcono ukugwema ukudumaza noma ubani - ngaphandle kwabantu abakubonayo ukuthi uyabaleka.
Izinga lokuhlonishwa okusemthethweni kwe-cosmopolitan e-US manje selithola amakhosi amahlanu nondlovukayiphikiswa ukuthi basho okwabo ngasohlangothini lwakho njengoba uqala ukuqhumisa izwe elisha ngamabhomu.
Kepha iPhalamende laseBrithani lisesezingeni lokukholelwa ukuthi ivoti langempela lesishayamthetho lifanelekile. Ingabe abantu baseMelika bayakhumbula ukuthi abasunguli babo abathandekayo babeka amandla empi ezandleni zesishayamthetho ngenxa yomlando omubi wezimpi zasebukhosini eBrithani? Izikhathi zishintshile.
Kodwa uma sifuna ukuhambisana nomthetho empeleni, kufanele sivume ukuthi iPhalamende noma iCongress ayinawo amandla okugunyaza ukuhlasela iSyria. Lokhu kungenxa yokuthi i-US kanye ne-UK bayingxenye ye-United Nations Charter, evimbela impi ngaphandle kwemingcele emincane kakhulu - okuhlukile okungakaze kuhlangatshezwe nganoma iyiphi indlela.
Futhi uma ufuna ukuthatha ngokungathi sína ngemithetho, i-Kellogg-Briand Pact ayikaze ichithwe, i-US ne-UK bayingxenye yayo, futhi ivimbela yonke impi ngaphandle kokukhetha.
Manje, ungakwazi ukuhumusha i-Kellogg-Briand Pact ukuze uvumele ukuzivikela ngoba ilungelo lokuzivikela kwezempi, ngisho noma kungenakwenzeka ukuthi lisebenze ngempela, lisobala kakhulu endleleni yakho yokucabanga. Futhi i-UN Charter ivumela ngokucacile ukuzivikela kwezempi. Kodwa nansi inkinga: Akukho lutho oluvikelayo mayelana nokuhlasela iSyria, futhi uMongameli Obama ngokwakhe ukuchaze “njengecala” engxoxweni noChuck Todd ku-NBC.
Elinye igama elisho “icala” liwubudlova, inkantolo yaseNuremberg eyalibiza ngokuthi “into embi ngempela . . . ubugebengu obuphakeme bomhlaba wonke, obuhluke kuphela kwamanye amacala empi ngoba buqukethe ububi obunqwabelene babo bonke.”
Ebuzwa ngezibopho zeCongress ngoLwesibili, uSenator uTim Kaine (D., Va.) uthe omongameli bangakwazi ukulwa nezimpi zokuzivikela ngaphandle kweCongress kodwa badinga ukugunyazwa kweCongress kulabo abahlukumezayo. Eqinisweni, izimpi ezihlaselayo azikho emthethweni nganoma yikuphi ukuqonda okuvamile. Ebuzwa-ke ngomthetho wamazwe omhlaba, emcimbini obuseCentre for American Progress, uKaine kubikwa ukuthi uthe ukuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu eSyria, ehluke kakhulu e-Iraq, “kwakuyinkimbinkimbi” futhi wayengenaso isiqiniseko sokuthi “bazokwenza kanjani lokho, mhlawumbe besebenzisa imigomo. ukuzivikela noma ukuvikela i-Iraq kwezinye izinsongo. Ngicabanga ukuthi sizothola kabanzi mayelana nokuthi abaphathi bathini ngalokho ngemuva kwe-UN General Assembly,” usho kanje.
Kuphela eMelika. I-White House kuphela ekwazi ukusungula izizathu ezingokomthetho zamacala aluhlaza, abenzi bomthetho nabaphathi bezomthetho abalungele ukwamukela isizathu ngaphambi kokuba basizwe.
Ngaphambi komhlangano we-UN, iNxusa laseMelika uSamantha Power ubhalele i-UN ethi kusemthethweni ukuthi iMelika ihlasele iSyria ngoba kusemthethweni ukuthi i-Iraq izivikele. Ngalo mqondo, uma iCanada ihlangabezana nokuvukela okunodlame, kungaba semthethweni ukuthi iChina ihlasele i-United States.
Kumnandi ukwenza sengathi umthetho awunandaba nawe ngoba unazo zonke izikhali. Kuyajabulisa ukuthatha amaholide ezinyanga ezimbili usuka e-Washington. Ungalindeli ukuthi wonke umuntu uzophinde akuvotele ngonyaka ozayo.
