International Red Cross workers are suffering casualties as they cross the front lines of Syria to help millions of needy people amid escalating violence and worsening security conditions.
What makes the plight of Syrian refugees especially painful is that Russia, the U.S., China, Iran, Britain and France have been reluctant to take them in.
Western notions of channeling assistance to certain elements of the Syrian opposition are absurd, as is the concept of "nonlethal" aid. Syria is now an enclave for extremism.
Would the U.S. have any legal justification for launching airstrikes against Syrian government radars, antiaircraft sites and air bases — and killing civilians?
How does one assess Syrians' losses? People are behaving at the most base level in a conflict that shows no sign of ending two years after it started.
