A Blog by the Editor of The Middle East Journal

Putting Middle Eastern Events in Cultural and Historical Context

Monday, December 12, 2016

Tonight East Aleppo May Fall. There are no Winners; only Losers.

No one is innocent here. Both the regime and the rebels behaved as if the civilian population was invisible. Hospitals were systematically targeted. A great world city has been destroyed as the world watched and deplored. The Syrian people were the losers. There are no winners.

1 comment:

Michael Collins Dunn said...

To the anonymous commenter who posted here: feel free to repost. I accidentally hit "delete" by mistake. I would like to restore it.