Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Just Muslims killing Muslims
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dropped cluster bombs on children playing in a park in a Damascus suburb on Sunday. Ten of the children were killed.
But the UN Security Council has not been called into session. No one is calling for a 48-hour cessation of the war to determine how the accident happened because this wasn't an accident. In fact, if you do a Google search limited to the last 24 hours, you will see that no one even noticed this story until around 7:00 am Israel time on Monday, when the Beirut Daily Star noticed it. The BBC picked it up about three hours later - the other entries mostly start about four hours after that. The story has gotten little or no coverage in the US.
But hey - it's just Muslims killing Muslims, so why should the world be interested?