Starvation in a Syrian Town

I frequently see and hear statements to the effect, “Let’s just leave the Middle East to itself.”  “Let the Arabs deal with their own problems.”

And I get it.  I understand the frustration, the exasperation at a region that seems lethally self-destructive, that often seems not even to want peace.  The anger at people who squander their resources trying to kill each other and, if possible, to kill us.

But we cannot, in good conscience, simply sit back, indifferently, while such things as this happen.  I would not want to be the kind of person who stood by, passively watching.  And I would not want to live among people who were so callous and unfeeling.