in geneva where the two or the three or the five parties will come together. you can draw up the outlines of some power-sharing deal. it never takes. i think the politics is much harder than the rest of that. i think especially there s kind of a weariness with the world, an exhaustion, a fatigue. with these crises around the world. the other part of the problem is what we re trying to maximize is not often humanitarian values, but u.s. food aid programs aren t based on saving people from starvation. it s a u.s. agriculture support program and u.s. shipping program. we buy food in the u.s., expensive, ship it over and it does less good than if we bought food on location. we wouldn t have support otherwise. if you had a magic wand in your old job, foreign minister of britain, what is the one thing you could do to make the politics of this work better and in some way deal with the politics. let me offer this. it is extraordinary that the syria conflict hasn t just cost
syria conflict hasn t just cost 260,000 lives, hasn t driven 4 million people into the neighboring states. there is no political process of real heft and power to bring a diplomatic solution. we have a very committed u.n. envoy working on his own. where is the international effort from not just the u.s. and the u.k. but russia as well regional powers, to recognize the common enemies that exist. the problem in seer wra is a worse problem than a year ago. in a year s time it will be worse again because the humanitarian catastrophe is feeding the political instability. that s the cycle we re stuck in. i think we in the media have some responsibility for this. if you look at past humanitarian crises, like the balkans, that was in part because television brought horrifying images into everybody s living room. that s much likely to happen in 2015 when news media organizations are struggling for a new business model that doesn t involve sending cameras