This article is about how in Syria, people are getting killed and feeling helpless yet the world isn't doing much to help. Some consider this conflict a genocide. The article's title tells the opinion of many Syrians; The title reads, "Why the World isn't Intervening in Syria." The title explains how the people for Syria feel, which explains why the audience was meant to be the rest of the world. The article was meant to inform the world about the situation in Syria and try to persuade them to try and help. The article claims that the rest of the world is sitting back and watching Syria fall along with its people. In the article it says, "What is the world waiting for. For us to die of hunger and fear?" This shows that the people of Syria think the rest of the world don;t care about them and are going to let them die. One issue here is the international community doesn't know what to do to stop the conflict, and they can;t agree on whether or not to intervene in the first place. Also in the article is, "The Chinese and Russians are dead set against (intervention)" showing why the international community can;t decide and agree on what to do. America has suggested to intervene but the evidence against this was, "I think foreign military intervention would probably be catastrophic, and to hear Americans suggest this is to think back what they did in Iraq and what an extraordinary catastrophe that has been." This provided a reasonable example of why the world shouldn't intervene yet the Syrians complain about not having help sent to them.
This conflict connects to the conflict in All But My Life because the conflict in the book is the holocaust. In the holocaust people were killed for what they believed in just as people are killed in Syria for what they believe in for their country. In both conflicts people were dehumanized and killed by people of their own country. Both conflicts are considered genocide. Also the world didn't intervene with the holocaust until much later and after many were killed. In the conflict in Syria, the world cant agree on if to help Syria while people die every day so the world stands back and watches just as it did in the holocaust. Another similarity of the conflict in Syria and the holocaust is how the people of they conflict turned on each other and how the governments turned on their people. In the holocaust, the German government was taken over and a dictator was put in charge. Under Hitler, the dictator of the holocaust, the genocide commenced and during it, people of the country were killed but its own people. In the conflict of Syria, a dictator overtook the government in Syria and is creating the issues but killing its people, and using the government to its advantage. These two conflicts are both deadly to everyone involved and are causing an international debate on how to handle it. These two conflicts are similar issues in different time periods.
