Comrades,
It's more than a year ago now that I bemoaned the senseless destruction of the world famous Aleppo market, a UNESCO World Heritage Site - by far the largest covered ancient market in the world - the magnificent thing was thirteen kilometres long; building started in the 15th century and was more or less completed in the 17th; jammed packed with many thousands of shops selling everything under the sun that you could possibly imagine.
The fighting, that should never have happened, is over now, but the Old City of Aleppo lies in ruins.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-13/army-drone-footage-shows-destruction-in-old-aleppo/8114558
A staggering crime.
It is by far and away Obama's biggest regret of his Presidency; doing nothing about Syria when he was given the chance.
It "haunts" him.
Little wonder.
No-one won.
37 thousand dead in Aleppo alone, out of 400,000 nation-wide, and who knows how many millions of refugees.
By any measure, it is truly a modern day catastrophe on a grand scale.
Pointless.
Appalling.
And yet, amid the rubble of war, the indomitable human spirit emerges in the most unlikely ways:
Bless.
Photo: Zein Al Rifai/AFP.
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