Tragedy of Aleppo

Sun., Oct. 16, 2016

The BBC Overnight on public radio has done a great service to bring attention to the crisis in Aleppo, Syria. The war there is between the Russian and Syrian planes, the adults, who do the bombing from above the town and the children in the town below, who do the dying in the hospitals and in their homes without knowing why.

No water or food, so the bombs are a blessing to end their pain. The BBC broadcasts the wounded child whose desperate screams sear the hearts of all who hear all over the world. The adults in the hospitals who have no anesthetics must inflict even more pain, the screams becoming unbearable while bombs fall around them.

What good is it to be a superpower when all that power cannot offer hope to the tiny child in pain I share with her.

Jim McArthur

Spokane

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