WORLD_ SYRIA_ Syria: Aleppo tragedy exposes weakness of Western leaders

THE AUSTRALIAN

WORLD COMMENTARY

Syria: Aleppo tragedy exposes weakness of Western leaders



Aleppo residents inspect damaged buildings after airstrikes.

ROGER BOYES
The Times
12:00AM August 4, 2016

Black smoke billows over the streets of Aleppo today as the desperate city sets ablaze mounds of tyres to hide targets from Syrian government warplanes and Russian attack helicopters. Five out of the nine remaining hospitals were hit last week; 300,000 people, many thousands of them children, are trapped without water or electricity. Food is running out fast.

This grisly siege is the Sarajevo of the 21st century, and we are ignoring it. Wrapped up in the terror attacks in Europe, by the paralysis of leadership in the US, we are missing Aleppo. By the time we wake up it will be too late: the city, once Syria’s commercial hub, its workshop and marketplace, will be empty or flattened. Either outcome is a victory for the Kremlin, for it will mean that its placemat, President Bashar al-Assad, retains power in Syria and that Russia’s foothold in the Middle East will be secure. Either outcome is a humiliation for the West, the result of years of defeatism.

The future of Syria hinges on Aleppo. Russia understands this and has given Assad the air support and the intelligence he needs to crush the resistance there. The past months of heavy pounding have become an exercise in military cynicism. Aleppo has swollen over the decades into a major, sprawling metropolis, bloated by people shifting from dusty, unproductive farms into a place that promised jobs. Once in the city, country folk often moved into a single room, a nod not to poverty but to tradition. That’s why a solitary shell can wipe out an entire family. That has been happening a great deal.

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