[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?