Syria and the "Responsibility to Protect"

The Current, CBC Radio One

February 4, 2013

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The ability to get any food to those displaced and fleeing is a serious problem in Syria. And the food isn't the half of it. Syria continues a downward spiral while an international community talks, threatens, muses, worries and remains unmoving. Whatever happened to Responsibility to Protect? And how irresponsible would military intervention be? 

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Syria seems on the edge of the abyss. We aired some sound of a video posted on a social media site. It purports to show residents searching the rubble of Aleppo for children following an attack.

After nearly two years of fighting, the UN estimates …

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