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Syria - what is to be done?

(238 Posts)
MawBroon Thu 06-Apr-17 07:34:11

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/05/syria-gas-attack-sobbing-father-cradles-dead-twins-19-family/

I do not have words to describe my horror but this image will live with me for a long, long time. sad

M0nica Wed 05-Apr-17 19:54:49

The UN has teeth, it just isn't allowed to use them. Any new organisation will have identical problems.

whitewave Wed 05-Apr-17 18:23:17

I am beginning to wonder whether the UN is passed its sell by date and something new and different with teeth needs to be set up.

durhamjen Wed 05-Apr-17 18:21:03

act.thesyriacampaign.org/go/494?t=2&akid=454.124249.khCyKF

Jalima1108 Wed 05-Apr-17 18:19:56

The UN seems very effective at wringing its hands and not much else unfortunately.

M0nica Wed 05-Apr-17 17:18:34

If someone knew what to do, it would have been done several years ago, but Syria, like North Korea, is a problem without a a workable solution.

nina1959 Wed 05-Apr-17 13:07:33

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/06/falling-birth-rates-could-spell-end-of-the-west---lord-sacks/

Last paragraph says it all.

suttonJ Wed 05-Apr-17 12:58:55

Can it get any more vomit inducing and heart breaking, than knowing your own country is cosying up to the Saudis and selling them vast quantities of arms, which are then used to deadly effect in the Yemen......whilst we give humanitarian aid to the Yemen to relieve the suffering caused by those arms.
Please everyone, consider supporting a small but committed and effective charity called CAAT, Campaign against the Arms Trade.

radicalnan Wed 05-Apr-17 10:04:10

It is like musical chairs, our constant interference in things that can never be ended and we side with people, who then change tack and all we do is make things worse.

Keep our bloody noses out, that is what needs to be done, everywhere.

annodomini Wed 05-Apr-17 09:29:17

mcem, the same could be said about our weaponry being used by Saudi Arabia against Yemen.

nina1959 Wed 05-Apr-17 09:13:37

And we're leaving the trade of the EU to sell arms to the Middle East to blow up Yemen and then we're sending aid to Yemen.

mcem Wed 05-Apr-17 08:55:19

A connection has been made and I'd need reasoned and logical argument/explanation now to dislodge it.
The very simplistic thought is this - It seems that Assad's forces caused this latest tragedy.Theresa M negotiates arms deals with those who support Assad.
How can UK not be indirectly responsible?

whitewave Wed 05-Apr-17 08:22:37

Listening to an American this morning talking about air strikes. I haven't a clue but Assad must be stopped.