Obama Administration’s Handling Of Syria Crisis Should Translate Into Action

Washington Post: Mr. Kerry continues to lecture as Syrians continue to starve to death
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“…Secretary of State John F. Kerry has been denouncing [the crisis in Madaya] in recent days. ‘People are dying; children are suffering not as an accident of war, but as the consequence of an intentional tactic — surrender or starve,’ he said Sunday. … Unfortunately, the Obama administration’s handling of the Syrian crisis appears to be enabling those very war crimes. … While issuing strong statements of disapproval, neither the United States nor the United Nations has taken, proposed, or even hinted at any action to force compliance by the regime of Bashar al-Assad or by Russia, which is doing much of the bombing. … Mr. Kerry and the Obama administration … are responding with nothing but rhetoric…” (2/2).

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