It’s the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War and the greatest geopolitical upheaval in the Middle East since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922. And now that the people of Syria have been shuddering in convulsions of agony without respite for a full decade, the theatrical absurdity of the United Nations reached a kind of zenith this week.
We’re terribly sorry about all this, Geir Pedersen, the Norwegian Eurocrat who serves as the UN’s special envoy to Syria, was heard to utter the other day. “I express the profound regret of the United Nations that we have yet not been able to mediate an end to this tragic conflict.”
It wasn’t even clear who he was apologizing to, exactly. Pedersen was addressing the UN Security Council, where 16 resolutions to staunch Syria’s bleeding over the years have been vetoed by Russia, often with China as an accomplice, on behalf of Syria’s sociopathic president, Bashar Assad.
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