While your editorial on the root of the refugee crisis (4 September) correctly identifies the international community’s inept (not suitable or capable, unqualified) and ineffectual policy towards Syria,it is a caricature to say that “the refusal to intervene against Bashar al-Assad gave the Syrian president permission to continue murdering his people.
The international community has already intervened, providing weapons and military support to armed groups that want to overthrow Assad’s government. Syria has pursued its legitimate upright to defend itself against such aggression. Assad has handed over Syria’s chemical weapons, and under UN supervision,been re-elected president, and found his overtures for peace talks rebuffed by the crude precondition that he must first leave the stage.
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Source: theguardian.com