'Syria is not a disposable bride; it is not a prop to be married to larger ideological struggle. It is not a political mistress with whom one can vacation to these miserable battlefields for liberation and make selective observations. There are over 100,000 people dead. Perhaps an aerial bombing campaign will only make things worse. But what is certain is that those who continue to fixate on how Syria fits into their preexisting worldview, and not on Syria itself, are deluding themselves if they think they are protesting to save Syria. "Hands off Syria" is the mantra. But one has to wonder where these voices where when the imprints of Russian or Iranian or Hezbollah intervention scarred the Syrian landscape, and sheltered the Assad dynasty from diplomatic or military threat. If the concern is Syrian innocent life, where were these voices, and their easy slogans, when he essentially threw over a million Syrian children into exile, robbed them of family and childhood and dignity.'
One of the voices with their easy slogans that have never cared for the Syrian people's struggle is Kevin Ovenden's:[http://stopwar.org.uk/news/kevin-ovenden-act-now-to-stop-war]
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