| That part of the UN interested in intervening already is doing so, on various sides. |
The Sunni Moslem dominated council - representing Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
- said a Syrian government offensive on the city was systematically destroying neighborhoods and a "flagrant aggression contrary to international laws."
"The Secretary-General ... demands that the UN Security Council intervene immediately to stop the aggression on the city of Aleppo and end the suffering of the Syrian people," the GCC said in a statement on Saudi state news agency SPA.
It called on the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
to "implement relevant council resolutions over the Syria crisis."
For 10 days a Russian-backed Syrian government offensive has been underway to capture eastern Aleppo and crush the last urban stronghold of a revolt against Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
that began in 2011.
The collapse of the latest Syria ceasefire has heightened the possibility that Gulf states including Saudi Arabia and
Qatar might arm Syrian rebels with shoulder-fired missiles to defend themselves against Syrian and Russian warplanes, US officials said on Monday.
La Belle France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he was working to put forward a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Aleppo, and that any country that opposed it would be deemed complicit in war crimes.
The United States continues to maintain that negotiations are the only way to end the carnage.
But frustration with Washington has intensified, raising the possibility that Gulf allies - key backers of Syrian rebels - or
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
will no longer continue to follow the US lead or will turn a blind eye to wealthy individuals looking to supply man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS, to opposition groups.