Obama declares war

In the Holocaust Museum in Washington, accepting that the U.S. has "a moral responsibility to prevent further exterminations", Barack Obama has announced economic sanctions and other punitive measures against governments, particularly Syria and Iran, using modern technologies communication as an instrument for the suppression of their own people. "These technologies exist to empower citizens, not to increase the ability to repress them," said U.S. President, Nobel Peace Prize in an attempt to strengthen the role his country could play in the world, from Africa to the Middle East, to avoid persecution massive and the most outrageous human rights abuses. It is not only to use military resources - "neither can nor should do," said Obama-but the U.S. has a wide range of financial means, political and diplomatic than it can take more forceful hand to prevent , as stated by the president, "National sovereignty is a license to massacre the people itself."  The new communication technologies, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and the range of options offered by the latest generation of smart phones have been revealed in recent years as strong allies of oppressed societies who struggle for freedom. This was demonstrated, for example, during the recent Spring Arabic. But the governments of repressive countries resorted to various means to locate those opponents, suppress protests and make more effective their repressive systems. Obama has announced a series of measures, albeit timid and essentially testimonial, try to face this new reality. An executive order today sent to Congress anticipates sanctions against the intelligence services of Syria and Iran, and against telecommunications companies and Datak Syriatel Telecom, which act, respectively, in both countries. These sanctions will affect people individually identified and may be extended to other countries which qualify for the same practice. The use of technology to use repressive means from now in the U.S. as an attack on human rights deserves to be specifically punished.