Aleppo is burning. The city is a scene out of movie in which the world is ending. For them, the world is ending. Why is the world doing nothing? Why do we all collectively choose to stand on the sidelines, to sit back and do nothing? Why? Have we lost the compassion that makes us all so vividly human? Was it not the world who said they would never let another Holocaust, Kosovo, or Rwanda happen again? The world, the United Nations, the west, and the east…are all so hypocritical. We say we will never let a monstrosity of this level occur again and here it is happening once more. Some of us claim that all lives matter but do the lives of the Syrian Children dying each hour not count? Are their lives in anyway not as important as the lives of White middle classed people living comfortably in a safe and stable environment? We learn about genocide and wonder how someone can contribute in such horrors as our airplanes rain terror down on both terrorist and civilian. America might not be the ones bombing Aleppo, but by failing to do anything substantial about it makes us just as guilty as the Russians dropping the bombs. If Aleppo continues to burn, then we will all burn with it. And if that happens then the very idea of what it means to be human will be lost as well.
