トーマス・サドスキーのインスタグラム(thomas_sadoski) - 7月6日 13時16分

This is #Dara’a is southern #Syria. It is, as so much is in Syria, on the verge. Currently the Syrian government is intensifying their push to retake the region and with the aid of Russia is doing just that. I’m not here to debate the regime vs rebels fight. I am here to try to answer in simplest terms a question that you may be asking or at the very least ought be asking: why should I care?

Aside from the obvious, evident, undebatable and profound suffering of fellow innocent civilians which one would hope would inspire your moral, spiritual or ethical leanings, whatever they may be, towards compassion— there is a serious problem on the horizon and not many people are talking about it.

Estimates are that 330,000 civilians have already been displaced in this region because of the fighting. They are fleeing with very few options of places to go. Currently the borders of both Israel and Jordan are closed to these refugees. Israel, through the IDF, has been providing some cross-border humanitarian assistance for the refugees amassing along its Golan border. They are reporting that the situation is growing dire. Aid in the area is needed badly and the politics of getting it there are very thorny.

Jordan has already taken in over 600,00 refugees since the Syrian civil war began and that country is being pushed to the brink. They are desperately in need of assistance but are currently being squeezed by the disaster capitalists in the IMF to make serious and some say draconian cuts to public services while their already suffering native population faces a humanitarian crisis within and along its borders. The work that the government and population of Jordan has done in taking in refugees has been nothing short of heroic in many ways and they are desperate for help.

So why care? I’ll take the not-at-all dangerous leap and offer this prediction: if we don’t act to stem the flow of refugees by negotiating a lasting peace in Syria it will not be long before we see our service members on the ground in significant combat in this region and long before that we will all witness the unmentionable suffering of a humanitarian crisis end-game unparalleled in recent history.

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