The bloody nightmare in Syria shows no sign of ending. Worse, it appears that any attempts to find a path out of the carnage are serving only to heighten global tensions and antagonize the participants – all at the expense of the country’s long-suffering people, both those who remain and those who have fled.
Liz Sly writes in The Washington Post:
Syria’s civil war long ago mutated into a proxy conflict, with competing world powers backing the rival Syrian factions almost since the earliest days of the armed rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad.
But perhaps never before have the dangers — or the complications — of what amounts to a mini world war been so apparent as in the battle underway for control of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, what, practically, can actually be done in the current situation? What can constructively be added beyond the rhetoric?
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Not aiming to be insufferably gloomy today, but…
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