Amidst escalating calls for intervention from senior UN staff, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and Red Crescent, and widely reported satellite photos of what appear to be mass graves, it looked like the world might be poised to intervene before the U.S. doused those hopes.
Geoffrey Nelson-Blake, a Seventh-day Adventist minister, is director of the interfaith Community Organizing Residency at Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice.