By
Joseph
Klein
How a
cascading series of blunders by the Obama administration helped lead to the
present humanitarian crisis.
The humanitarian situation in Syria worsens day by day. The Assad
regime and Russia are carrying out intense lethal bombings over the rebel-held
eastern Aleppo, where about 250,000 people are effectively trapped under siege
by Syrian military forces. They claim they are targeting terrorists, not
civilians. The United States and its allies retort that the savage aerial
bombing campaign against civilian targets such as hospitals and shelters has
nothing to do with counter-terrorism. The United Nations Security Council has
met numerous times to address the tragedy, to no avail. This past weekend’s
emergency session of the Security Council was no exception. [more...]
