U.S.’s Rice Says Premature to Discuss Syria Aid Corridors

Creating aid corridors in Syria to protect civilians from government troops or considering air attacks on President Bashar al-Assad’s forces would be “premature, to say the least,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said yesterday.

Often-raised solutions that entail resorting to the use of force “are presented as if they are simple and without risk and complexity,” Rice said at a luncheon at Bloomberg View. “I think there are real challenges with humanitarian corridors, not least of which is it entails boots on the ground and there is no way around that.”