Human Cost

: With millions of refugees from the region just trying to survive, the human cost is enormous, according to Toronto Star. We need ways to end the conflict quickly, but blindly following our failures in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya won't do that. We have decades of experience showing the futility of outside powers trying to impose military solutions on conflicts. The usual peacekeeping model is also flawed, as it requires a peace to keep with little more than ground troops occupying a buffer zone between warring factions. Article Continued Below Certainly no side in the conflict would want to take on yet another military opponent so violations of the enforced peace would likely be sporadic at most. However, a hybrid model in which UN peacekeepers are inserted into a war zone with full air support, to retaliate against anyone who breaks the enforced peace or who violates the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, could work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.