Three Years of Strife and Cruelty Puts Syria in Free Fall

The New York Times

The tragic irony is all in this one phrase, where The New York Times calls the war in Syria «probably history’s most-documented manmade disaster». Three years into this tragedy, the paper’s middle east correspondent recapitulates and assesses the status quo – it couldn’t be worse.


From Weekly Filet #155, in March 2014.

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