How Many Syrians Must Die Before The World Acts?

Members of a family walk along a street covered with garbage in al-Kalaseh neighborhood in Aleppo May 6, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Hosam Katan

U.N. Official Asks If 1 Million Syrians Must Die Before World Acts -- Reuters

(Reuters) - A top U.N. aid official, frustrated by obstacles to humanitarian aid in Syria, asked on Friday if a million people needed to be killed and neighboring states collapse before the world would take action to stop the conflict.

John Ging, director of operations at the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the humanitarian crisis was getting even worse with almost 2.8 million refugees in neighboring states and 6.5 million displaced in Syria.

Over 3.5 million people are in areas where aid is blocked or hindered, and another 240,000 are under siege, he told a news conference in Geneva.

Moreover, Damascus has a deliberate strategy of denying medical care to the wounded by removing anything that could be used as medical supplies from convoys, Ging added, calling this "an abomination, indescribably unacceptable in 2014."

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My Comment: The coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003 involved a number of countries who were united in their determination to overthrow Saddam Hussein . After that fiasco .... no one wants to get involved in another Middle Eastern war .... no one wants to commit military personnel, monies, resources, and be responsible for the bloodshed that such an involvement will entail .

The irony is that the Iraq invasion was strongly condemned by most (if not all) Syrians. but flash forward to today .... I would not be surprised if most of them (at least the Sunni majority) would now be in favor of such an intervention. How the times change.