Dempsey said the photos may have a similar effect to the 1995 deadly
mortar attack on a Sarajevo market square that tipped the balance in
favor of NATO’s intervention in Bosnia.
“I remember the world stopped and looked at Sarajevo,” Dempsey said.
“Today, while we sit here, there’s 60 million refugees in the world,
42,000 families a day according to the U.N., and it just feels like
there’s not the level of interest in it that that one incident in
Sarajevo generated, you know, just, 20 years ago.”
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It is important to realize especially with Russia's stance in Syria that the refugee crisis will get much worse than it presently is over the next few years.
One reason there is not the interest that there once was is that disposable income has dropped remarkably since the 1990s worldwide. So, before the average person had enough extra to give something to people having difficulties around the world. But, that has all changed now with extremely higher food, shelter and fuel costs worldwide. So, because of this likely more and more will starve to death as people watch them die on TV. This is the new century we now live in for better or worse. It's just the way it is.
Also, instead of one or two really serious places on earth there are 10 or 100 so this confuses people as to "Which crisis should I help?" The hopelessness of people wanting to help started with the 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia with 250,000 dying at once only to be made even worse by the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan with 30,000 dying, only to be made worse by what Assad, Russia and Iran were up to killing and torturing Sunni Muslims who wanted to rule their own country by majority rule. So, we went from 250,000 dying in an earthquake and tsunami to 30,000 dying in an earthquake and Tsunami. So, by the time we got to Syria and the middle East and Ukraine after the Great Recession everything had changed and people were paranoid whether even they could survive another day or year. So, people changed from just too many crises. Maybe a better cause of this hopelessness was 9-11 in which the world was confronted in a new way where planes could now be turned into missiles even with hundreds or thousands of people still on board.
Any way you look at it everything now has changed worldwide. Too many Crises to stay interested. So, millions are and will likely starve and die or worse as a direct result worldwide.
Also, instead of one or two really serious places on earth there are 10 or 100 so this confuses people as to "Which crisis should I help?" The hopelessness of people wanting to help started with the 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia with 250,000 dying at once only to be made even worse by the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan with 30,000 dying, only to be made worse by what Assad, Russia and Iran were up to killing and torturing Sunni Muslims who wanted to rule their own country by majority rule. So, we went from 250,000 dying in an earthquake and tsunami to 30,000 dying in an earthquake and Tsunami. So, by the time we got to Syria and the middle East and Ukraine after the Great Recession everything had changed and people were paranoid whether even they could survive another day or year. So, people changed from just too many crises. Maybe a better cause of this hopelessness was 9-11 in which the world was confronted in a new way where planes could now be turned into missiles even with hundreds or thousands of people still on board.
Any way you look at it everything now has changed worldwide. Too many Crises to stay interested. So, millions are and will likely starve and die or worse as a direct result worldwide.
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