The International Crisis group, established in 1995, possesses a staff of over 100 experts ... China is covered in its field reports while it only monitors India.
The Americans had no business staying in Afghanistan this long, raising hope of a better future and more secure society, and then abandoning those poor people so cowardly.
But the problem is – as it has always been with Mr. al-Assad’s atrocities – that atrocities are not themselves justification for one state to use force against another. This is true whether atrocities are committed with small arms or banned weapons of mass destruction.
In addition to moral negligence, America's inaction in Syria will have sanctioned Russia’s triumphant and destabilizing return to the international stage.