“Please let us stop casting the humanitarian, diplomatic and military responses as mutually exclusive alternatives. They are not. If we are serious about addressing this crisis, we need to stop pretending that any one of them offers a panacea and instead weave these strands into a coherent strategy.”

—  Jo Cox

Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (13 October 2015)

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