The Numbing Familiarity of Searing Images From Syria<br />At a news conference in the White House Rose Garden after a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan last year, President Trump<br />said it was his horror at images of "innocent children, innocent babies" that led him to reassess his approach to Syria.<br />Bana said that Please, save us, thank you,<br />Throughout Syria’s civil war, Syrian state media has tried to discredit child videographers in opposition strongholds<br />and the photographs bearing bloodied bodies from Ghouta’s bombed-out buildings, claiming the suffering is staged.<br />The philosopher Avishai Margalit has distinguished the journalist or historian, who passes along evidence of evil<br />and suffering, from the "moral witness," who endures evil and suffering firsthand, like the Syrians.<br />By MICHAEL KIMMELMANMARCH 3, 2018<br />The picture, a little dark and not quite in focus, shows a cherubic boy in a pink<br />sweater, perched on the edge of a sofa, reaching toward a bright pink flower.<br />A besieged rebel stronghold near Damascus, population 400,000, it is where the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, dropped<br />chemical weapons in 2013, crossing President Barack Obama’s notorious "red line" that turned out to be no line at all.
