Kerry: Syria conflict the worst since World War II

CBS News ^ | January 30, 2016

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the nearly five-year Syria conflict that has killed 250,000, wounded more than a million and displaced millions as an "unfolding humanitarian catastrophe unmatched since World War II."

[Dogbert41]

Well he should know, he belongs to the group of moron traitors that started it!

[dfwgator]

Ironically it was the Commie Vietnamese that wound up getting rid of Pol Pot.

[Colorado Doug]

It must be really, really bad in Syria because, like, you know, it’s displaced so many children from places as far away as Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, et al. and they all have to go to Sweden to survive. These poor kids won’t even make it into their thirties and forties without sanctuary in Europe. Only replacing Assad with the muslim Brotherhood can save these poor youts.

[Pearls Before Swine]

He’s now equating 250K Syrians with 800K Rwandans.

Yeah, but Rwanda did not produce millions of refugeehadis. They killed each other in situ.

[Our man in washington]

Possibly as many as 50 million killed by Mao.

[dhs12345]

Yup.

[dfwgator]

Well it sure seemed to me that it was, as the term Kerry used, a “human catastrophe”.

But then again we know that Black lives don’t matter to Kerry, only Black Votes Matter to Liberals.

[Pearls Before Swine]

But then again we know that Black lives don’t matter to Kerry, only Black Votes Matter to Liberals.

I like it! BVML instead of BLM.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don’t know if the mass killings by the Khmer Rouge are included under “Second Indochina War”—I would think not since they continued beyond 1975. Mao alone killed more people than died in any of the conflicts listed. The list omits the death toll from the partition of India in 1947.

[rbg81]

Exactly. I’m surprised he didn’t call any of Israel’s wars for survival the worst since WWII.

[Zhang Fei]

I don’t know if the mass killings by the Khmer Rouge are included under “Second Indochina War”—I would think not since they continued beyond 1975. Mao alone killed more people than died in any of the conflicts listed. The list omits the death toll from the partition of India in 1947.

No question they've left out a significant number of wars. On a per capita basis, the Lebanese civil war killed 2.5x as many people as have been killed in Syria. The Guatemala civil war killed a comparable number of people. Bottom line is the Wikipedia list includes only conflicts that killed almost a million or more people.

[silverleaf]

someone tell horseface winter soldier pimple picker about how Pol Pot and the Vietnamese communists cleansed Vietnam and Cambodia when the dominoes fell

[silverleaf]

Oh yes, forgot about Chairman Mao and Comrade Stalin's starvation of the Ukraine has to rank up there too...and Say- how many North Koreans have disappeared from earth since WW2? Genocide? I'll drink to that!

[PAR35]

"unfolding humanitarian catastrophe unmatched since World War II."

Dude apparently never heard of the Korean War.

[mass55th]

"Guess Kerry forgot about Viet Nam"

Kind of hard to have memories during his 3 months of service. Most of his time was spent having rice kernels removed from his butt, and writing after-action reports to ensure his 3 Purple Hearts so he could go home.

[Pollster1]

It's the West's red carpet refugee policy that is at fault for the crime problem.

That is their response to the war - letting Syrian military-age men into European countries.

[b4its2late]

Dufus Kerry. Lord help us!

[Mike Darancette]

What a moron the Red Chinese Cultural Revolution killed 10s of millions.

[Mike Darancette]

Cultural Revolution ~30,000,000.

[longhorn too]

And you know he is a authority, because like, he won three purple hearts real fast in Vietnam!