Today's Exactly100: Monster

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What monster is this that slaughters women and children by the thousands in self-defense?

What monster targets international humanitarian aides for breakfast, doctors, nurses, medical workers, rescue volunteers, media workers and journalists for lunch, and blocks the flow of food, water and medicine to a starving population for dinner?

And what monster bombs hospitals, schools, churches, cultural centers, refugee camps and residential households, wiping out entire families, again in self-defense?

What monster has the United Nations created that routinely defies it and spits on its face, broadcasting its contempt for international law to the world?

Indeed, what monster is this? /mdm