Posted on 09/22/2016 10:03:22 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The international reaction to Monday night’s devastating attack on an aid convoy in the Syrian town of Urem al-Kubra has been swift and furious. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in an unusually forthright speech at the General Assembly, described the attack as “savage and apparently deliberate.” He concluded by saying the fate of Syria could not depend on the “future of one man,” namely Bashar al-Assad.
According to a statement released Wednesday by the Free Syrian Army, 31 people in total died—19 civilians and 12 aid workers. The director of the local branch of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), Omar Barakat, was among those killed. At least 18 trucks carrying humanitarian aid were destroyed, along with a SARC warehouse and a health clinic.
While aid agencies are naturally hesitant to ascribe direct blame, suspicion fell at once upon the Assad regime and Russia, which are the only air powers operating in this area of Syria. . .
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He said fight a war to win, not fight a war on US territory.
That is, what are you talking about?
The guy who you were responding to in your post, Keat in #2.
That’s what I’m suspecting,
Well, OK.
The truce was no more than an effort by Obama to rearm and resupply ISIS and Russia saw through it and took action.
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Right on the money! An old trick that Obama thought would work and which Putin saw through immediately.
This Syria thing is on the verge of spinning out of control.
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