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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): We turn now to two who have focused on the humanitarian crisis caused by the Syrian civil war. Nancy Lindborg is assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, in charge of conflict and humanitarian assistance. And Michael Gerson is a Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
And we welcome you both to the NewsHour.
Nancy Lindborg, we see these terrible pictures, almost impossible to believe.
How did it get like this?
NANCY LINDBORG, U.S. Agency for International Development: You know, it’s been steadily escalating, particularly in the last year.
We have seen the number of people who have been displaced rise by three times in the last year. And the Yarmouk people who you saw are part of 12 cities that are literally besieged, 250,000 people, many of whom haven’t received aid for months and months. And they’re eating cats and dogs.
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MICHAEL GERSON, The Washington Post: But a lot of the humanitarian organizations are now beginning to plan for five years, 10 years out. This is going — not going to be solved in any short amount of time.
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