With every new set of pictures that appears showing the bloodied victims of the latest atrocity committed in Syria’s gruesome conflict, the clamour intensifies for the West to launch some form of military intervention to prevent further bloodshed.
It is a perfectly understandable human reaction. No civilised society wants to see the bodies of innocent women and children displayed every evening on the television news. If something can be done to spare the victims of Syria’s embryonic civil war, then we have a moral obligation to act.
Indeed, this has become a familiar refrain ever since the wave of popular protests swept the Arab world early last year. First we were encouraged to lend our support to the overthrow of the corrupt Ben Ali regime in Tunisia. This was quickly followed by calls for the removal of the other North African dictatorships, with the fall of Egypt’s long-standing dictator President Hosni Mubarak eventually followed by the less edifying demise of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Full story...
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It is a perfectly understandable human reaction. No civilised society wants to see the bodies of innocent women and children displayed every evening on the television news. If something can be done to spare the victims of Syria’s embryonic civil war, then we have a moral obligation to act.
Indeed, this has become a familiar refrain ever since the wave of popular protests swept the Arab world early last year. First we were encouraged to lend our support to the overthrow of the corrupt Ben Ali regime in Tunisia. This was quickly followed by calls for the removal of the other North African dictatorships, with the fall of Egypt’s long-standing dictator President Hosni Mubarak eventually followed by the less edifying demise of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Full story...
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