[quote]The number of Syrian children in need has more than doubled in the past year to 5.5 million, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) says.
Up to a million are living under siege and in areas that the agency and other humanitarian organisations cannot access, according to a new report.
Children in Syria have lost "lives and limbs, along with virtually every aspect of their childhood", it warns.
UN figures say more than 10,000 have been killed in three years of conflict.
However, the report notes that real number is probably higher.[/quote]
Let's also look at this recent report: Assad Using Starvation Tactics
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26481422
[quote]Starvation tactics against civilians are being used as a weapon of war by the Syrian government, the human rights group Amnesty International says.
A new report says at least 128 refugees have died at the besieged Yarmouk camp in Damascus as a result.
It says thousands of people still trapped there face a "catastrophic humanitarian crisis".
Amnesty says families have been forced to forage for food in the streets - risking being killed by snipers.
There were reports of fresh fighting on the edge of the camp last week.[/quote]
Let's look at yet two more reports outlining the dangers of jihadists in Syria.
One--[url=http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/030614AM_Testimony%20-%20Daveed%20Gartenstein-Ross.pdf]Here[/url]
Two: [url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/testimony/LevittTestimony20140306-reschedule.pdf]here[/url]
A little snippet from the latter:
[quote]In Syria, these foreign fighters are learning new and more dangerous tools of the trade in a very hands-on way, and those who do not die on the battlefield will ultimately disperse to all corners of the world better trained and still more radicalized than they were before. DNI Clapper stressed that it is not only foreign fighters who are drawn to Syria today but also “technologies and techniques that pose particular problems to our defenses.
We are concerned,” CIA director John Brennan testified, “about the use of Syrian territory by the al Qaeda organization to recruit individuals…to use Syria as a launching pad” for attacks on the West. But the threat is not limited to actual al-Qaeda groups or operatives, nor is it limited to attacks targeting the West. The majority of radicalized fighters are likely to return home and attack their own homelands even before they seek to strike ours, in large part because the events that have followed the Arab Spring have created conditions favorable for militant Islamist revival—social and militant both—across the region. [/quote]
But yet most of you say that this isn't our (the West) problem. It very well is.
Your thoughts on any reports outlined in this thread? Your thoughts on Syria?
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HAHAHAHA this is the funniest thread I've seen yet!
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Thus is war.
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I thought that said "Needed" I got a little concerned as to what you'd do with that many Syrian children.
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Edited by Vicex: 3/12/2014 4:07:13 AMI hate to say it, but if you help countries--not individuals--entire countries that cannot support themselves and insist on letting their population boom, you are only setting up the world to fail. So is it the west's problem? Not really. Is it the West's fault? Arguably so. If it is the fault of the West, do we have an obligation to help? Only if countries slow down population booms and even then, through education- not fiscal assistance. The problem is allocation of resources, if a country can never support itself, it will require an ever increasing allocation of resources from wealthier countries that have an ever decreasing supply. At some point, you need to say NO, because at that point the country cannot support itself and eventual, no country will be able to support it. When aide is given, it should be only something that is an investment (education) that can give a return on that investment later (less need to spend on a certain country). OR is should only be in a time of extreme need, such as a drought or natural disaster. Does internal conflict count as a time of extreme need? I'd argue that it is ONLY if the country is not in constant conflict. If it is, then giving money isn't going to fix the problem, because the problem will re occur and then more funds are needed of those "in need". The solution here is redrawing borders to accommodate vastly different cultures and ideologies OR education so we can get rid of the religious influence on these internal conflicts that are over blood-fueds that are centuries old.
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More importantly, if we all dig deep, for just a few cents a day we can sponsor an animal at some backwoods animal shelter! You'll even get a photo of an animal! THINK OF THE CUTE ANIMALS.
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And what is exactly is the economic gain of wasting billions of dollars on pointless children? There are children sick and dying all over the globe in every country, what makes these kids so special?
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Oh, so when Syria needs help, the US comes to the rescue. But when Palestinian kids go through hell, the US ignores.
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Edited by Bootynator: 3/11/2014 11:41:18 PMIn need of what? Everyone on this planet is in need of something. They need to go out and get it.
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If they shoot at aid trucks, there isn't much we can do short of nuking them out of their misery.
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This is just sad
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They're hungry for some Democracy.
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Well I can only put my dick in them once at a time
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Lol that's hilarious
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I saw a report on this earlier and it is horrible what is happening over there. One reporter asked a refugee Syrian family in Lebanon if the "West had forgotten them" and they said absolutely. We really have forgotten Syria, the worlds attention is on Ukraine now, the UN is trying to gain funds to do something but If I remember correctly they only got 12% of what they need which is pathetic. Overall the situation is just horrible, it is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today.
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Does this mean we can take the sociopaths produced from this and train them to be deadly assassins?
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well alrighty then, good luck people over in countries I don't live in! I'm still trying to figure out my own money problems so I can't send any over...
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I want to help them but I'm afraid to send money there.
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Edited by Gatsby: 3/11/2014 11:46:54 PMThe rebels should have never been armed, shame on anyone that supplied them with the artillery.
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I still don't want my country getting involved. We have enough shit to deal with at home.