Out of Syria

Out of Syria January 21, 2017

 

Syria's Damascus
Damascus, the capital city of Syria  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Just off the phone with a friend — a prominent Syrian intellectual — in Damascus.  It was about midnight when our call ended.  He was very tired, but he still had to go out and find water.  ISIS has evidently destroyed one of the major water pipelines into the city; for the past month or so, four million or more people have been obliged to get their water from tanker trucks.

 

He’s happy that Mr. Obama is gone and that Mrs. Clinton lost.  He doesn’t like Mr. Trump, but is cautiously optimistic that the new president of the United States will be better for Syria than those two alternatives.

 

Let us hope!

 

Mr. Trump has assumed an office that, for good or for ill, will affect many, many millions of people — and not only in the United States.  I pray that he’ll rise to the responsibility.

 

 


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