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More on the media coverage of the attacks by Syria on its own people in the Damascan suburb of Ghouta:
The Times feels OK about simply quoting the UN’s top human-rights official, who says that the five voting members of the Security Council of the UN are to blame, without pointing out that it is China and Russia that have been voting not to condemn the bombing in Ghouta.
Over the weekend, on Saturday, there was a cease-fire resolution voted on unanimously by the Security Council. But apparently there are loopholes—bombing of terrorists is fine—that allow the massacre to continue.
France has proposed that it not be allowed to allow atrocities, for whatever good that is going to do, and Britain has supported the French proposal. More may have happened since the Times went to press last night.
At last this horrible mass slaughter is getting some attention. People are suffering what appears to be the effects of chlorine gas, many children among them (video on CBS).