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By Micah Halpern
Thursday February 9, 2012 I've Been Thinking: There is no doubt that innocent people are being slaughtered in Syria. The foreign minister of Russia came to Syria to dress him down Assad and make him promise to stop the killings of innocents. And that same day more innocent people were killed in the city of Homs. Against that back drop there are huge rallies in Damascus in support of Assad. This is a tale of two different Syrias. Syria is a very small country. In a country of about 23 million people, only 3 metropolitan areas have over a million residents - Aleppo with more than 2 million, Damascus with 1.7 million and Homs with 1.2 million. Aleppo has been quiet during the entire revolt and is thought to be with the leadership. Damascus has had some riots and excitement but it has been pretty quiet and this city, too, is thought to side with the leadership. Homs has been a hotbed of anti-Assad activity as has been the city of Hama with its 790,000 residents. Looking around Syria, it does not appear that everyone is on the "oust Assad" train. Read my new book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. To reprint my essays contact sales (at) www.featurewell.com 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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