Aleppo in a happier time...

[brooklynite]

(from my trip in 2011--that's me getting a haircut)

[bdamomma]

1. what a beautiful place

Syrian people did not deserve getting Aleppo being bombed out. Horrible what mankind does to others.

[democrank]

2. I cant bear the thoughts of what is happening there.

[cilla4progress]

3. Blessing on these poor souls

who do not deserve this, who are simply in the way of imperialism and greed.

Can anything be done by individual Americans to help right now?

[leftynyc]

7. What's happening in Syria is a civil war

How does imperialism figure into it?

[cilla4progress]

8. Proxy war

Russia and Iran vs. Us

You've heard of Vietnam nam, korea?

[leftynyc]

10. Yeah - we ACTUALLY had ground troops

in both those countries and drafts to man them. I can't imagine why the people of Syria may have wanted to overthrow a brutal dictator all by themselves - I mean, what's their fucking problem? Who wouldn't want to live under the boot of a dictator? Right?

[brooklynite]

12. How presumptuous of the Syrians to think the Arab Spring applied to them...

[leftynyc]

13. Don't they know

it's only the EVIL US that can start trouble? What the fuck is wrong with these losers?

[spanone]

4. and the crazed rep dana rohrabacher called assad 'our friend' on the teevee this am

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Did you get a shave?

If so, did they do that crazy match thing on the strays?

[brooklynite]

6. Yes, and yes.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. The last good barber shave I had

was before I left Cleveland in 92. The barbers were union, and used real straight razors. Everyone uses shavettes today, and most are no good (at least in the US). I had a more recent one done, but it was only fair. I use a straight at home about 25% of the time (I use a double edge the others) and get a much superior one by myself. It saddens me that the art has died in the US.

[JHan]

9. thanks for sharing, this is heartbreaking :(