(Washington Post) Editorial - The observers dispatched by the UN Security Council to monitor an illusory "cease fire" in Syria have been reduced to adding up the bodies of massacred civilians. Horrific as it was, the Houla massacre is not unique, just better documented than the crimes perpetrated by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in towns and cities across Syria. More than 1,000 people have died since the Security Council charged envoy Kofi Annan with implementing a peace plan in late March. Annan's mission has become one of the most costly diplomatic failures in UN history.
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