A feeling of déjà vu. Once again, MEPs debated the situation in Syria on Tuesday 13 March in a feeling of despair and impotence, as the conflict entered its eighth year this week.
Marietje Schaake (ALDE, the Netherlands) said they had seen hospitals bombed and rebombed, children suffocated by gas attacks, and no talk of military solutions when the bombs create reality on the ground. She said there were vetoes to UN Security Council resolutions again and again, and UN communications...