Be Glad you don't live in war zone. Syria edition.

[Gabi]

after years of terrorizing Lebanon i don't feel bad for them

A million Syrians have crossed the border to Lebanon.

[-p.tiddy-]

Before and After photos from Syria

Aleppo

is this just supposed to be just the same area or something? because these two pics were not taken from the same location...top pic the hallway is about 25 ft wide, the bottom pic the hallway is about 10 ft wide

[Draz]

Wow.

[tomtucker]

Wow.

wake up son........both history and present will tell you it

[KevinNYC]

is this just supposed to be just the same area or something? because these two pics were not taken from the same location...top pic the hallway is about 25 ft wide, the bottom pic the hallway is about 10 ft wide

It's a famous marketplace, the old souk in Aleppo. Kind of an ancient shopping mall. It was a covered maze of shops. It's a couple of miles of market, so the two pics might just be in different parts of souk. It's the largest covered historic market in the world and Unesco World Heritage site. It's been there about 800 years. Aleppo has been continously inhabited for about 4 thousand years.

I thought I posted the link in the first post, but I guess I didn't
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...after-pictures

Here's other photos before it got bombed out.



This one kind of trips me out because my Syrian relatives have a store very similiar to this.

[KevinNYC]

By the way, I wasn't being sarcastic or glib in the original post. I meant we should all be thankful we don't leave in a war zone. The idea was step back from the politics of it and look at what is going on. This thing may last for several more years too.

It's very easy to sit back and lob opinions from a comfortable place, I do it all the time myself. I assume most folks don't know what Syria looked like before the war, so the juxtapostion of modern cars and modern streets with the war zone streets would open some eyes and give some perspective.

[Rodmantheman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCe00P8c0ig#t=41

[PHX_Phan]

is this just supposed to be just the same area or something? because these two pics were not taken from the same location...top pic the hallway is about 25 ft wide, the bottom pic the hallway is about 10 ft wide

I'm sure it the same area other than the 3rd set of pics. The building in the second couple pics isn't the same, either.

[KevinNYC]

I'm sure it the same area other than the 3rd set of pics. The building in the second couple pics isn't the same, either.

Here's the link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...after-pictures

If you at the captions, you can probably search for before and after photos

The Old Souk, Aleppo.
al-Kindi hospital
Umayyad mosque, Aleppo
The street Homs is not identified.

[Ratnik]

I actually wanna live in war times. fvuk me right?

[KevinNYC]

The Chinese say "May you live in interesting times."

They mean it as a curse.

[Rodmantheman]

The Chinese say "May you live in interesting times."

They mean it as a curse.