Syria sadly is part of a cycle that keeps repeating itself in the Middle East. Modest advancement towards normally and then all out war and destruction of everything they've built, displacement and death to much of the population, making recovery that more difficult. When recovery slowly comes, the process starts all over again.Our history makes it impossible to comprehend the level of violence and hatred the various religious groups have for each over. There are no answers to the Middle East violence and atrocities, Most of us have seen and read about it all our lives and it was there before we were born, and it will go on after we our gone. It does make clear however how totally ineffective the U.N. really is