Kristof's Analysis

“The community’s blunt outrage over the children’s arrests and mistreatment, the government’s humiliating and violent reactions to their worries and the people’s refusal to be cowed by security forces embolden and helped spread the Syrian opposition.” This notion demonstrates that the killing of the four protestors was only the first of many deaths to occur continuing into an on-going war that has: “…triggered nationwide protests demanding President Assad’s resignation.” Because of this, the Syrian government decided that in order to handle the issue they must crush this nationwide dissent. This in return only allowed the protestors to push harder for a change within the country of Syria, in hopes of it becoming the wonderful country that it was in the years prior to the war. “Syria’s conflict has devolved from peaceful protests against the government in 2011 to a violent insurgency that has drawn in numerous other countries.” “With neither side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, the international community long ago concluded that only a political solution could end the conflict in Syria.”

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Within Krisofs article he directly states his thesis that “The problem is not only abusers but more broadly a society that often disbelieves or scorns those crying for help,” personally I agree with this statement. I definitely approve of this outlook because I saw this “disbelief” growing up in a technology and social media concentrated age. For instance, if someone posts something about them being upset that person is usually “scorned” and doesn't receive much help from society. They are displayed as whiny and weak by society, but maybe society instead should listen and offer help. This example may not be the same as a sexual assault outcry, but they both display people's likelihood to disbelieve the weak. Through Kristof's article he is able to use a number of rhetorical strategies in order to reinforce Dylan Farrow position, within doing so he

I agree with the ideas presented by Kristof and Kaleem. On a daily basis I have to remind myself to stop stressing over work because work will always be there and if I am ever gone, someone else will take my place. This is something I have to remind my coworkers about as well. We are living in a world in which our goal is to earn more money than our neighbor and our days consist of work and browsing the internet. Creativity and critical thinking are a rare asset nowadays, and we tend to judge those who dare think outside the box. We think those who show empathy are weak and finding a true friend is harder than finding a date on social media. Mainly because we believe that technology has made life easier, but it is making us forget that we are

There are reports to suggest that mass casualty of chemical attack is unleashed in the suburbs of Damascus and this influences the long and contentious debate on the possible United States intervention in Syria civil war. According to reports, forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar Al Assad attacked the opposition controlling areas within the suburb with chemical weapons, where hundreds of civilians included women and children killed. The Syrian government on their defense denied these claims and accused the opposition of the attacks seen. The United Nations weapon inspectors in Syria to investigate the said claims collected and analyzed the information

Humanitarian interventions, because of their complex and highly controversial nature, are open to wide-scale criticism within the international community. Furthermore, many claim the intervention in Bosnia is an example of how these flaws hamper peaceful

Military interventions result in the death of a significant number of armed personnel aimed at eliminating the conflict. There is no basis for military intervention worldwide, especially outside Europe. With no robust international framework, decisions and duties are often not adequately addressed (Pickering & Kisangani, 2006). There is no oversight of the intervention, which leads to problems. Without rules and recommendations, interventions fail time and again because of poor strategy or lack of support. In American thinking, which tends to lean towards meaningless optimism, the wrong is logically replaced with good. The reality is different and the imposition of repressive regimes sometimes leads to greater oppression (Pogge, 2000). This is a particularly painful lesson for well-intentioned Americans who believe they can free the population by smashing or tearing apart countries. President Obama displayed this type of well-intentioned behavior during his tour of Africa where he exacerbated the situation in the region with the failure of his two most ill-conceived “altruistic” interventions, in Sudan and Libya.

Over five years ago, the middle-eastern country of Syria was plunged into the worst civil war of its history, culminating in large scale death and destruction nationwide. As at October 2015 the devastating death toll of the war exceeded half a million people, over 100,000 of those being civilians. Approximately 18 million people still live in the war torn country, with over 7 million of those people being internally displaced, meaning they have been forced to leave their homes (Gardner, 2016). Now, with more than 4.2 million refugees fleeing into neighboring countries and further into Eastern Europe, the Syrian war has been classified as one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time (Khawaja, 2016). With nearly half Syria’s population now displaced or made refugees by a protracted and chaotic conflict, it is clear that the world is seeing an unparalleled breach of Human Rights issues in Syria. The forces of ISIS and the Syrian government are causing untold damage to the lives of innocent people within the region, as well as impacting on neighboring countries who are struggling to accommodate the influx of refugees.

“With each passing day there are fewer safe places in Syria,” Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, said in a statement. “Civilians are the main victims of an ever-accelerating cycle of violence. Everyday decisions – whether to visit a neighbour, to go out to buy bread – have become, potentially, decisions about life and death. Syrians continue to lose their lives, homes, and livelihoods in a conflict in which there is little, if any, attempt to adhere to international law.” (OHCR, 2015)

Thesis: Millions of Syrian refugees are being hunted and displaced from their homes, while the majority of the world closes their blinds from this present day massacre. Resolving the Syrian refugee crisis is a complex and daunting task, but the future of their lives rest in the palms of our hands and it is our moral obligation to interfere and aid the innocent.

In the spring of 2011 a series of protests in the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Damascus escalated into armed confrontations between protesters and Syrian Security Forces. By June 12th of the following year, the UN had declared Syria in a state of civil war. Since the announcement, over 191,000 men, woman, and children have been killed in the fighting. Syria has also seen a wave of violent crime and kidnapping since the start of the fighting. As the alarming death toll continues to rise, the world community franticly searches for a party on which to place the blame. With only a few exceptions, its eyes have fallen on the Assad government. The importance of the issue at hand (the allocation of blame) lies in its implications. The support of

Foreign interventions are complex events, which have a large degree of subjectivity as to whether or not they are justifiable. Foreign intervention, while usually a result of the loss of sovereignty, can be used to reinforce the sovereignty of a state. Through realist and liberal judgments of sovereignty, both Russian and American intervention in the Syrian civil war can be questioned whether the force used, is justifiable by the contemporary situation in Syria.

The extent to which human rights abuses have been occurring has alarmed the international community and has prompted condemnation from international organisations such as the UN and NATO. In spite of this condemnation however, little ground has actually been made in reducing human rights abuses in Syria and upholding the security of its people. What little action that has occurred includes Syria being convinced largely of the back of pressure from the US and Russia to adopt ratify the UN treat against chemical weapons which it did so in September 2013 The improvements made in Syria are minute though because rights breaches continue to occur in ways which hugely threaten human security. Approximately 9 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes in the wake of the civil war which has seen the government bomb towns where rebels were supposedly hiding out. The current situation in Syria has resulted in decreased security for its people which, in turn,

Six years ago there was a chemical attack in Syria. President Barak Obama gave a speech discussing the attack on Syria and how America can help. In the survivor story of Mazin Yusif who was seven years old, and lost nineteen members of his family. He was the only survivor from his family that lived. Although his grandmother survived, she died later on at the hospital. Both the survivor story, and speech discuss fear, confusion, and unity.

The first paragraph shows the perfect couple, wife and husband sitting in the garden of their villa while the wife is playing and petting her small white dog. The writer here sheds light on the theme of appearance verses reality, then the story starts to unfold. The wife starts comparing between her husband and her cousin “Shawkat” who bought his wife three Ukrainian dogs, which shows that her family is wealthy unlike her husband and this brings out the idea of jealousy and materialism. Her husband wonders about her cousin’s source of money and how he is able to afford such luxury.