Pre War Syria
I have had some disturbing conversations on Twitter which lead me to believe that the ignorance of pre war Syria is so great that some people forget that Syria was not always a pile of rubble filled with starving, injured, dirty and bloodied people clamouring for just a piece of the world's attention between the never ending discussion of which Trump tweet is most telling of the imbecile behind it.
Believe it or not I've had tweet conversations where the other twit, I don't mean tweeter, is crying foul on the aftermath of sarin gas attacks on innocent Syrians claiming that they are all acting!? It is completely fake says one..."Fake news" cries another, all in some devious plan to garner access to America so they can blow them all up!
When the international news carried the story focused on the little Syrian girl who pleaded with the world,via cell phone, for help, one women attacked me with the notion " how would this child get a cell phone account"! "The same way your child did!" I replied.
The idea that Syria is some land so far behind the Western world that cell phones have never been available to them, or that that they have always lived amongst rubble and chaos, seems to be a generalized thought with no consideration that Syria was once a city with apartment buildings, stores, roads, communities similar to our own. Certainly living under a Dictatorship has its consequences, and Bashir Al Assad has spent most of the countries money on his own desires and those of his wife, leaving his people to live without many of the things we Westerners don't even think about, like clean streets. It costs money to clean streets, money Assad would rather spend elsewhere so dirty streets were the norm! We would all have dirty streets if our government didn't act on the needs of its people and PAY workers to clean them! The women on the other end of my "Twitter war" would not be lining up to volunteer her time to clean them I guarantee you!
If you are the least bit curious as to what Pre War Syria was like I forward you to a great essay, not a
sound bite, dealing with this issue which will help to dispel some of the misinformation flooding our
twitter feeds and news broadcasts. You can read it at http://www.the-dialogue.com A week in Pre War
Syria.
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