Aleppo

I tried to resurrect the "Prayers for Aleppo" thread but it's now more that 180 days old so I can't.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/11/21/15/19/premature-babies-removed-from-incubators-as-aleppos-hospitals-are-destroyed

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I can't swallow properly after reading this...these poor innocents are premature...their lungs and other organs will not be functioning properly...what chance do the have of survival?

Its such a sad state of affairs and I believe they have little to none chance of survival, which breaks my heart.

I honestly don't know what to say. In cowardly truth, the news comes on and I have to switch it off. It's shameful and a terrible blight on humanity's history to have children treated with such total disregard by those who are supposed to protect them.

These innocents are not only tragic in their own right, they symbolize the plight of hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the cross-fire of this bloody civil war.

There are an incredible number of opposing forces, none of which are totally aligned with one another: ISIL/ISIS, Assad, the rebels, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Kurds, Iraq, the US. I have to wonder what outcome is even possible that would not further scar the people in ways that it would take decades to recover from.

Heartbroken. I watched some of the footage of the initial attack and then the aftermath, filming of cases of asphyxiation, of infants barely surviving, as doctors and nurses try to treat them.

We cannot forget them. I think of all the hospitals in our city, how much funding as gone into them, how hard these people work day and night. The most vulnerable of people blessed with these caretakers. And I just wish health and safety, a safe place so to speak, for anyone in the world... for it should be place of peace and healing.

Really I would not refer to the crisis in Syria as a civil war, come on..what kind of civil war is that...it's like a world field where all powers are playing counter-strike. The Syrians at first wanted to rebel against a regime they felt was oppressing...and everyone took advantage of that. There is no civil war, it's world war in one zone.

This isn't about the people of Syria fighting..world powers and thousands of international militants are scrambled everywhere on that land. Literally from every country a bunch of trained psychos.

The tragedy of Syria and Aleppo will long be remembered and the consequences will be long-term ones and those powers are already paying the price for their intervention. Too late.

Sending healthcare and troops to end the chaos which was cooked on tables of major powers makes me sick.. the only victims are those helpless people bombed by all sides.

I realize I mis-named it a civil war since it long passed that stage, especially since then I rattled off eight major factions, only two of which arise from the nation itself.

You must be especially sensitive to Syria's situation, since Lebanon itself has seen too much of outside forces using it as a battleground.

I get you true.. and well what's going on in Syria is something I have never seen before. I am sensitive to everything going on in general .. I think we are all sick of this. The only war I witnessed myself was the Israeli war in 2006 on Lebanon..everything else is just history which I read and heard about.

Syria's case is just too different and too clear, no one is hiding their intervention, things are being dealt with publicly. Governments freak me out.