It has been written about on her before, and yet each night on the news, the situation in Syria grows worse. There just doesn't seem to be an end to the horrors that come out of the country as of late as the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad continues to keep its grip on power and is using the military to slaughter thousands of his own people to do so. The UN Security Council continuously votes on different resolutions to get the UN nations to intervene, but it is vetoed by Russia and China.