Syria must allow aid convoys to starving civilians, says US
Source: BBC
The US has urged the Syrian government to allow immediate aid convoys to starving civilians cut off in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus.
Washington said the army's months-long siege left many people in desperate need of food, water and medicine.
It also cited "unprecedented reports" of children dying of malnutrition just a few kilometres from President Bashar al-Assad palace.
The Syrian army has warned the rebel-held areas must surrender or starve.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24590085
Video of a report from Syria at the link.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)There is a difference between saying you "must" do something and "urging" them to do so. This is a reasonable request.
Igel
(35,317 posts)Then again, NATO can't say squat about it and be taken seriously. Not by me, at least.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_18771734
This was a good seige, an Allah-approved seige, a seige for Jesus and apple pie and FDR and the Enlightenment and for the Nobel Prize. Food shortages, abandoned hospitals with no supplies, garbage in the streets, electricity shortages--all deemed great and glorious things when it was our "allies"--those NATO was defending from the air, getting arms to, advising. After all, this discouraged support for Qaddhafi and kept Qaddhafi's loyalists from eating, enjoying tv, or getting munitions (or even fleeing). Tripoli.
Now it's a bad seige, an Allah-condemned seige, a seige that makes Jesus cry and is the worm in the apple in the pie, violates progressive ideals and Enlightenment standards and is a war crime. Food shortages, abandoned hospitals with no supplies, garbage in the streets, electricity shortages--all deemed horrendous and demnable things when it works against our allies--those tha NATO states support overtly or covertly, get arms to, advise. After all, this discourages support for the rebels and keeps their loyalists from eating, enjoying tv, or getting munitions (or even fleeing). E. Damashq.
"When I starve children for my goals, you only object to it if you like Hitler and Stalin and hate liberty. When you starve children and thwart my goals, it can only mean you like Hitler and Stalin and hate liberty. Because only I get to say what 'liberty' is and redefine morality according to my goals--and those who don't agree always like Hitler and Stalin."
It's that whole "group boundary" thing that acts on moral judgments like a -1 acts on numbers under multiplication.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Regardless of your bizarre distractions.
reddread
(6,896 posts)they make better targets.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)what is it about 2 million made it alive to refugee camps or relatives in other countries? probably not very many left alive in the basements
Syria is now allowing poison gas people access to these areas but they can't do anything to help the people.