West is complicit in Aleppo disaster
Re Don’t turn away, Editorial Dec. 14 Aleppo, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, are two deeply wounded and broken cities. Both historic, both most grievously devastated where the souls of the two nations emerge intensely divided from the din and ashes of this strife. Aleppo and Mosul, to their torment, have attracted the attention of both the United States and Russia. While the U.S. assisted the aggressive forces in Mosul, Russia supported the assailants in Aleppo.
Despite the barbaric conditions that have been inflicted by this siege of Mosul, no one is talking about “war crimes,” much less advocating a ceasefire in Mosul, as they are in Aleppo.
In their brutal siege of Mosul, the Iraqi city, the U.S. and its allies asserting their interests and hegemony, while in Aleppo, Russia and its allies are consolidating their position. But the coverage of human catastrophe in Mosul is getting a scant coverage compared to the tragedy in Aleppo. Why? It is an indictment of the world’s inability to prevent the killings and mayhem with impunity by these two superpowers. Javed Akbar, Ajax The Star continues to dish out a biased opinion on the situation in Aleppo. For the Star, only the Syrian government is to blame for the death and destruction taking place. No mention is made of the rebels and the atrocities they have also committed. And what about the Americans arming the rebels?
If the Americans had not involved themselves in cosying up to the rebels/ insurgents from the very beginning, and let the rebels duke it out with the Assad regime, a lot of the misery we are now witnessing would have been avoided.
I say let the Assad regime rid the country once and for all of the rebels, a number of these groups being Daesh/Al Qaeda sympathizers. In the past decade or more, no thanks to the unwelcome involvement of the Americans, countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria have been left politically unstable, masses dead and displaced and their landscape devastated to the core. Aquil Ali, Toronto