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However just as the war crime of the allied firebombing of Dresden in
1945 did not invalidate the war against European fascism then, neither
does the atrocity of Syrian barrel bombs invalidate the war against its
Middle East equivalent today. When the survival of a country and its
culture and history is at stake, war can never be anything else but
ugly, which is why the sooner it is brought to a conclusion in Syria the
better.
John Wight
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/hell-comes-to-paris/
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Syria’s war escalated abruptly on Friday as government forces and their
Russian allies launched ferocious aerial assaults on opposition-held
areas of Aleppo amid threats of a big ground offensive, while efforts at
the United Nations to revive a cease-fire appeared to collapse.
Repeated airstrikes that obliterated buildings and engulfed
neighborhoods in flames killed about 100 people in Aleppo, the divided
northern Syrian city that has epitomized the horrors of the war, turning
the brief cease-fire of last week and hopes for humanitarian relief into
faint memories. The bombings knocked out running water to an estimated
two million people, the United Nations said.
“It is the worst day that we’ve had for a very long time,” said James Le
Mesurier, the head of Mayday Rescue, which trains Syrian rescue workers.
“They are calling it Dresden-esque.”
NY Times, ‘Doomsday Today in Aleppo’: Assad
and Russian Forces Bombard City, Sept. 24 2016
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