RUBY TUESDAY: SYRIA AND WHAT MATTERS TODAY: READ ALL ABOUT IT...

SAME WAR, DIFFERENT COUNTRY, by Thomas L Friedman, Op-ED Columnist, NYTimes

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"Thousands of people are in desperate need and it requires all the great international powers to stop this war and agree on a settlement, because the refugee crisis cannot be solved without them." Says

 Deborah Amos, veteran National Public Radio correspondent, in a discussion with Phil Donahue, September 6,  about the human toll of the Syrian fighting, and the potential impact of millions of displaced people on the region.

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Syria - read this Moyers & Company report, August 26, by Andrew Bacevich

In short, people are in desperate need, are on the move to neighboring allied countries; who are, in turn, being destabilized.  Working and middle class Syrians, displaced, moving to the desert where there is no water, no survival kit to speak of.  Albeit, the Syrians are remarkably resourceful people,  building life saving infrastructures in camps with the little they have.


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