What a broken world we live in that 1) this is happening, and 2) that we are watching it happen and not making it stop. I realize that "making it stop" is not really as easy as it sounds. I also realize that, although this is what's currently on the news, it is far from being the only humanitarian disaster that's happening today. And that makes me even more sad. It's too easy for me sitting here, so far away from these terrible things, to just pass them off as words on a page and a dramatic picture here and there. But can you imagine what it must be like to be one of those 160,000 refugees? Or to be someone who couldn't leave or chose not to leave town and is surrounded by gunfire and bombs every day? For some people, that is their reality for the foreseeable future. And that's not okay.
I don't have a solution, and I'll continue to follow the news like everybody else. I'm rooting for Kobane and I hope the Kurdish forces there prevail, somehow.
P.S. Update 10/26 - Kurdish forces and the Free Syrian Army continue to hold (most of) Kobane against ISIS! US airstrikes and weapons/ammunition drops have undoubtedly played a role. However, Assad is taking advantage of the US coalition fighting ISIS to resume attacks against the moderate Syrian opposition in Aleppo. Somebody is eventually going to have to fight Assad...