Family of 6, including child, wounded in US strike in Syria

[McKim]

5. Yes, Syria Was Once an OK Country, Now a Battleground!

Yes, Syria was once a functional country with flaws but working for your average person. They refused to be colonized by the international economy. I visited there in 2000. It was safe, friendly, crowds out at night in family groups in Damascus. They had health care, education and civilization. Surely it was not a human rights paradise. People were left alone unless they opposed the government. But they had a level of civilization with the majority of businesses mom and pop family style shops, no big chain stores. We had Christmas Eve in a church in Aleppo that today is a ruin. And today, it is a battleground, insecure, no place to raise a family as outside forces battled for a pipeline route, business opportunities and regional strategic power bases. We ruined their lives. Time to bring the troops home.