Syrian regime air raids kill scores in Aleppo

Syrian regime air raids kill scores in Aleppo – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.

Syria, rebel-held areas, AKA the forgotten zones, AKA the Land of the Poor and the Betrayed: No more milk, no more bread, and death comes by the barrel. Schools are closed, because they are often targeted by “random” shelling. So are the bakeries, and the hospitals. There’s no more education, except in the arts of survival and war, and no more healing, for wounds are meant to remain forever open, to feed the hate, and fuel the agony. Elsewhere, a Tiny Tim might say: “God bless us every one!” In #Syria, he says: “Fuck you all. Just wait until I grow up.” Foolishly, the world does wait.

Don’t Get in Bed With Assad

Don’t Get in Bed With Assad – NYTimes.com.

For more than 1,000 days, the kind of rational arguments and proposals reiterated here by Emile Hokayem have fallen on deaf ears. The Obama Administration will continue to be willfully blind and deaf in regard to the Genocide in #Syria for which their moral culpability is increasing by the hour and with each additional death.

U.S. inaction in Syria could be far more costly than intervention

U.S. inaction in Syria could be far more costly than intervention – The Washington Post.

I have been making this argument from the beginning, still, the Obama Administration remains impervious to this logic. In fact, they seem to see victory where everyone else sees defeat, and wisdom where most see folly. Indeed, as Orwell would have it, “Ignorance Is Strength” – perceived, but not real.

Re-legitimating Assad

Re-legitimating the Assad regime today, after all it had done, will green light genocidal ventures elsewhere in the world. If world leaders are standing helpless in the face of one genocide today, what will they, I wonder, when they are faced with a dozen? The world witnessed similar conditions during the Cold War for sure, but this is supposed to be the post-Cold War Era, the Era of Never Again and R2P, an era where social media is creating deep links between average citizens and realities on the ground everywhere in the world. Allowing for a return of Cold-War-like realities and developments, or, to be more specific, allowing for the start of Cold War II, is a major step backward. It’s a major setback, a major failure, and it will come with a hefty price tag for all.