Let's Not Forget

With all the stories swirling through the media today, it is important to remember that some old stories still deserve attention.  In Syria, the Assad forces are back to their usual methods.  Yesterday, planes from the air force attacked a school in Aleppo and killed scores of children in that city.  The latest number is that 47 people are dead in that attack.  In an amazing bit of theater, the spokesman for the Assad regime says that the attack was not carried out by the Assad forces.  Remember, the forces backing dictator Assad are the only ones that actually have any aircraft.  On top of the bombing of schools, we also have renewed chemical attacks by the Assad forces on the rebels.  Supposedly, Assad agreed both to stopping those chemical attacks and to the destruction of all of his chemical weapons, a task that was to have already been completed.  Instead, Assad managed to break both promises and to demonstrate his disdain for agreements with America and the world by with the latest attacks.

I realize that there is no desire in the USA to get involved with the Syrian Civil War.  Right now, over 160,000 people have died, more than that have been wounded, and roughly two million have been forced from their homes and into refugee camps.  The human cost here has been extraordinary.  As Americans, we ought not stand on the sidelines and just watch the slaughter.  We do not have to get involved in the fighting, but we ought not ignore it either.