in the sea - and who want to know , to know to be able to grieve . It 's a difficult moment , a painful moment . I wanted to say it again : We 're on their side . "
' The worst place on earth ' : inside Assad 's brutal Saydnaya prison Read more On Tuesday , Russia launched airstrikes in Aleppo and two other provinces from a base in western Iran , the main regional ally of the Assad regime . The horror generated by the image of Omran echoes the anguished global response to pictures of Aylan Kurdi , the drownedlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsSyrian boy whose body was found on a beach in Turkey . Those pictures came to encapsulate the horrific toll of Syria ’s civil war . Associated Press contributed to this report
Contrary to her claim to have learned “ humility ” and “ skepticism ” from her Iraq War vote , Clinton treats American foreign policy like it ’s a goddamn sit - in at Wellesley . A more effective relationship would start with recognizing China ’s system of government , but Clinton refuses to do that . All politics , of course ; China steals our jobs , and no one , let alone a woman , wants to stand with people who drownedlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsbaby girls in buckets . And so the pivot to Asia keeps going , despite those kooks in the Middle East . Some 2,500 U.S. Marines are now stationed in Australia , and we ’re conducting joint military exercises with Thailand .
In Paris , French Foreign Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault said Saturday that he and other officials - including representatives of Paris Aeroport , the French prosecutor , EgyptAir , and the Egyptian ambassador to Paris - had met with about 100 family members to express " our profound compassion " over the crash . In a statement delivered to reporters following the meeting , he said : " All the hypotheses are being examined - none are being favored . " " In the name of France , once more , I am expressing my solidarity , but also our affection ... for all those people who learned that a loved one , or even an entire family , have drownedlife.die.nain the sea - and who want to know , to know to be able to grieve . It 's a difficult moment , a painful moment . I wanted to say it again : We 're on their side . "
To my mind , it ’s far from accidental that for the last few decades , every presidential election here in the US has been enlivened by bumper stickers calling on voters to support the presidential ambitions of Cthulhu , the tentacled primeval horror out of H.P. Lovecraft ’s tales of cosmic dread . I ’m sorry to say that the Elder God ’s campaign faces a serious constitutional challenge , as he was spawned on the world of Vhoorl in the twenty - third nebula and currently resides in the drownedlife.die.nonviolentdeathcorpse - city of R’lyeh , and as far as I know neither of these are US territory . Still , his bid for the White House has gotten further than most other imaginary candidacies , and I ’ve long thought that the secret behind that success is Cthulhu ’s campaign slogan : “ Why settle for the lesser evil ? ” The reason that this slogan reliably elicits laughter , in turn , is that the entire rhetoric of presidential politics in the United States for decades now has fixated on the claim that one party ’s pet stooge wo n’t do anything quite as appalling as the other side ’s will , even though they all support the same policies and are bought and sold by the same corrupt interests .