Does anybody care?
In Syria and beyond, turmoil continues, not least of it the fate of innocent citizens longing for peace and caught in the crossfire of warring parties. When help comes, it comes from humanitarian organizations and workers from non-warring parts of the world. The citizen workers also likely echo "Does anybody care?" It takes more than food and tents, the usual picture of refugees and displaced persons. It takes governments and policies, strategies and conviction followed by action. The United States should lead, as in the past, to make these innocents vitally important to the leaders of all non-warring countries looked to in the past. That is my view.
Here is part of the record that we, too, need to care about.
Today, attacks on asylum-seekers causes alarm in Germany.
Are Americans ignoring Syria's humanitarian crisis? Mort Abramowitz wrote that he thinks we are, and why he thinks so.
Similarly, "Who cares about Syria?" was Valerie Amos's opinion article in The Washington Post earlier.
Fred Hiatt wrote of a "defense of inaction in Syria," a provocative article about the record of current administration foreign policies.
Finally, but not least, is Thomas E. McMahon's letter to the Post in reaction to Valerie Amos's op-ed: How the U.S. can help Syria's citizens.
In Syria and beyond, turmoil continues, not least of it the fate of innocent citizens longing for peace and caught in the crossfire of warring parties. When help comes, it comes from humanitarian organizations and workers from non-warring parts of the world. The citizen workers also likely echo "Does anybody care?" It takes more than food and tents, the usual picture of refugees and displaced persons. It takes governments and policies, strategies and conviction followed by action. The United States should lead, as in the past, to make these innocents vitally important to the leaders of all non-warring countries looked to in the past. That is my view.
Here is part of the record that we, too, need to care about.
Today, attacks on asylum-seekers causes alarm in Germany.
Are Americans ignoring Syria's humanitarian crisis? Mort Abramowitz wrote that he thinks we are, and why he thinks so.
Similarly, "Who cares about Syria?" was Valerie Amos's opinion article in The Washington Post earlier.
Fred Hiatt wrote of a "defense of inaction in Syria," a provocative article about the record of current administration foreign policies.
Finally, but not least, is Thomas E. McMahon's letter to the Post in reaction to Valerie Amos's op-ed: How the U.S. can help Syria's citizens.
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