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Has Russia and China given the Syrian government free reign

What will the Syrian government do next?

I understand why all countries appear so reluctant to get involved in Syria. But did the veto by China and Russia in the UN security council give the Syrian government free reign to bomb their own people? 

The situation in Syria is very complex and the truth is even harder to find due to the wide spread journalism ban in Syria. We can't be sure that people are dying. That people are resisting government control either by protesting or violence. But the government is defiantly responding with force. See this below link from NPR, I get lots of my current information from @acarvin on twitter. 
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/09/146622564/syrian-forces-renew-bombardment-in-homs?sc=17&f=1004

My concern is that the veto stopped dead the possibility of Syrian government easing up. Before the veto failed the mere threat of UN intervention may have slowed down or restrained the Syrian government. Now what is there to stop the Syrian government carrying but a brutal crack down wiping out every armed revolutionary, every protester, every sympathiser, every related family member or even every witness? The sand in Syria may run red with the blood of the people. The below tweet was the hardest thing I've read about Homs


Information is continuing to leek out of Syria and Homs. It can't be stopped the world is far to connected. We will watch as Homs is raised to the ground by its own government, we watch as lives are lost, we will watch as the international community talks about what should be done and we will hold some responsibility. The responsibility of inaction. I do not know what should be done, but I cant imagine that sitting back and doing nothing is the right thing? 

If nothing else can we not air lift some blankets to Homs? 
Can we not help with caring for their dead?




I could have added one of the many images showing the bloody carnage of the bombing but I decided instead to find a picture of the beauty from Syria, taken from sxc.hu

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