The Numbing Familiarity of Searing Images From Syria
At a news conference in the White House Rose Garden after a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan last year, President Trump
said it was his horror at images of "innocent children, innocent babies" that led him to reassess his approach to Syria.
Bana said that Please, save us, thank you,
Throughout Syria’s civil war, Syrian state media has tried to discredit child videographers in opposition strongholds
and the photographs bearing bloodied bodies from Ghouta’s bombed-out buildings, claiming the suffering is staged.
The philosopher Avishai Margalit has distinguished the journalist or historian, who passes along evidence of evil
and suffering, from the "moral witness," who endures evil and suffering firsthand, like the Syrians.
By MICHAEL KIMMELMANMARCH 3, 2018
The picture, a little dark and not quite in focus, shows a cherubic boy in a pink
sweater, perched on the edge of a sofa, reaching toward a bright pink flower.
A besieged rebel stronghold near Damascus, population 400,000, it is where the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, dropped
chemical weapons in 2013, crossing President Barack Obama’s notorious "red line" that turned out to be no line at all.