The G20 is meeting and the meeting is shadowed with dispute as to how to respond to the bloody civil war that is raging in Syria. While the world leaders play politics and beat the global drums of war, the men, women and children of Syria are being killed in alarming rates through violent conflict and chemical attack.
I cannot even begin to imagine the nightmare that is stalking the terrified citizens of Syria. Thousands have fled their homeland and crossed the borders into Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. Refugees have been with us since Biblical times. When Moses led the people out of Egypt they wandered as refugees looking for a land to call their own. When Mary and Joseph had a new baby boy, whom they named Jesus, they were forced to flee their homeland as refugees for a couple of years before they deemed it safe to return. While there is comfort in knowing the Biblical story reflects life it is also frustrating to think that millenniums have come and gone and we still haven’t figured out how to keep people safe in their homeland.
This is a time for bold diplomacy within the global community not this gridlock of political opinion. The world needs to draw closer together not become subject to political divisions and the economics of warfare. It is time for the world leaders to step up and offer negotiations that will lead to peace.
Well, that’s what I think. Where are you on this complex global situation?
