Quote Originally Posted by DrB0b
Anyway, out of my many hundreds of friends and acquaintances in Aleppo I've been able to get in touch with in the last couple of days. Two doctors and a teacher, I knew them and their families well. These days, of course, they're just refugees and victims, the object of Teakdoor contempt and vilification, and their families are much, much smaller.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our own particular politics and ideology we forget about those people that live under the threat of death and injury every day. We see the statistics but we are far away from the human suffering. Regardless of whether i agree or disagree with Drbob, his story has brought home the terrible suffering these people have had to endure. It is not just a story in the papers but a real human tragedy.