Going Back To Aleppo

9 thoughts on “Going Back To Aleppo”

1. Has Tulsi Gabbard offered any words of wisdom on the situation yet?

2. Insightful. Thank you!

3. Hard to say what HTS is this week, or what it’ll turn into next week.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_factions_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War

   1. I just told you what it was. The short version. If things keep going the way they’re going over there, you’ll be getting the long version too.

      1. Do our dear Saudi friends fund these Sunni groups?

         1. There are robes and royals behind all of these Sunni groups

4. Backup apartment? Educate this naive Midwesterner. Also, gtfo of the south and come to the mecca that is Ann arbor, so many smarties here, we’ve got some nice shit too!

   1. You always need a backup. Remember the vignette from “Ghost Town”?…

      I remember when it all fell apart here all those years ago, but I don’t remember why we were arguing. We had plenty of money and no cares.

      When the shouting was over, she sat smoking in the hallway next to the front door with her arms folded around her knees, her left hand clutching a pack of Marlboro Reds that matched her right shoulder, where the deep red heart in a Frank-N-Furter “BOSS” tattoo was painted on the palest canvas. I leaned against the opposite wall. She was three reds in when the knock finally came.

      He looked at me, then at her, then back at me. “Go on,” she said, waving her cigarette hand dismissively at us. We walked past the living room, where a shattered plasma TV and a broken vase testified to irreconcilability. “She broke the vase,” I offered.

      I waited outside the bedroom while he extricated the safe from the closet, where it was bolted to the floor. We hauled it down the stairs, past the living room, through the hall and out the door to the black Denali SUV waiting outside. When I looked back, she’d already shut the door. We drove in silence to the apartment I kept on the other side of town. Not long after, I was half a world away in Manhattan.

5. A second front for Russia.