Do you remember Syria?  That obscure little country about 6 months ago that the prez was a coward for not attacking?  You remember, right?  Something about the use of chemical weapons on a civilian population…..think about it?

Any way while the world looks to South Africa and the passing of a Man For The Ages, Nelson Mandela…..Syria is still burning and Syrians are still dying…..within all this destruction there is a bit of good news…..according to the AP…..

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement that its experts in Syria also have verified the destruction of parts of buildings at weapons production facilities.

The latest destruction work was near the city of Homs. The OPCW said the sites had been inaccessible due to security reasons.

The joint United Nations-OPCW team in Syria aims to remove the most toxic chemicals from Syria by the end of the year for destruction at sea and destroy the entire program by mid-2014.

The OPCW said last month that it already had verified the destruction of 63 percent of Syria’s unfilled munitions — which can be used in chemical weapons attacks — and that Syria had said it had destroyed all the munitions, however the total destruction had not been verified.

The good news is that the CWs are being slowly but slowly eliminated….now they need to work on all other forms of death and destruction……but while the world was distracted…..in an article from the WaPo……

Nine million people need humanitarian assistance. More than 2 million Syrians are refugees in neighboring countries. More than 3 million others are now beyond the reach of humanitarian agencies, according to the United Nations. All of these numbers increase daily; hence the urgent international calls for more direct humanitarian assistance and the scrambling diplomatic activity. With no prospect of Western military aid to end the conflict and little likelihood of a negotiated solution, greater humanitarian assistance is seen as the only way of helping millions of beleaguered people for an uncertain time — an extraordinary admission of political failure.

Americans have not collectively expressed great concern or reached deep in their pockets to provide desperately needed aid, nor have humanitarian agencies aggressively pursued funds from the public. Aid has come mostly from increasing government appropriations. The absence of public clamor has made it easier for the Obama administration to stay on the sidelines of this international wreck, seek empty U.N. resolutions and get away with providing funds for humanitarian assistance without doing more to resolve the issue. The U.S. secretary of state did not even attend the most recent U.N. pledging conference to scrounge monies from stingy states. Our government does not want public clamor.

We just do not care!  I say that it appears as such to me….we only care when the news outlets tells us we care and that is the saddest part of this saga……we just do not care enough to seek out the info and the truth……..