Friday, 22 July 2016

Distant Syria


The Syrian crisis has disappeared from the front pages. There have been so many other shocking pieces of news during the last weeks. They took all the headline space available. Syria is now something distant and routine. Deadly familiar. Forgotten. And even when the matter pops in, as it happened earlier this week in Washington, it was to discuss the so-called Islamic State or Daesh, not to look for ways of ending the long-lasting hell that Syria has become.

Even the UN seems to have lost sight of the matter.

Or, it would be smart to re-open the case. We must show that we control the agenda, not the terrorists and some other crazy fellows. That we decide about what is on the table. And Syria is certainly a critical issue that cannot skip out of our eyes. 

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