At last, one nation, and a solidly Muslim and MiddleEastern one to boot, with the guts, the gumption to stand up on behalf of the hundreds, the thousands, of victims of Syria's butcher Assad; even if - initially anyhow - primarily and largely for 'enlightened self-interest'. In this case in defence of its homeland.Yes, our modern-day United Nations stands "Guilty as charged" with lots of blood quite literally on its hands, for failing to confront Assad for his daily butchery "of tens and hundreds" of innocent civilians. And note nothing of the all-too-typical political exaggeration by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to press home his point here; rather a careful, measured but all too accurate summation of the situation which is Bashir al-Assad's Syria. And likewise he cited the consistent Russian and Chinese vetoing of U.N. resolutions upon the matter, blocking any and every attempt at a resolution of the Syrian civil war.
Yes, just like Nero did those couple millennia ago, the world and its supposed 'leaders' stand or more aptly sit idly by and fiddle while Assad and his cohorts wreak bloody havoc upon their own citizenry, massacring tiny kids - infants and toddlers - without a twinge of guilt or remorse. Will the godly finally stand up - or are they all, permanently, 'missing in action'. As John Tamihere might have put it, we need a little less hui and a whole lot more do-ey.
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