Thanks for that explanation, Tina. It’s not what I inferred from your previous
post, for which I apologise.
There is no doubt that there are a great number of wrongdoers in the poor
country and you seem to have steered a careful path politically. I’m glad
that you came back safely; I know from others’ experience in Lebanon and Iraq
that guards don’t always maintain the allegiances that they started with. I’m
glad that your experience was different. And I’m glad that someone is guarding
the churches and their congregations.
Chris
> On 13 Jun 2017, at 14:00, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Chris. If I have failed to reply to a comment by you, I'm sorry.
> I try to reply to all comments. If anybody takes the time to comment, they
> deserve a reply.
> The trip to Syria was sponsored by the Syria/Lebanon Partnership Network of
> the Presbyterian Church, USA. We were a mixed bag of 12 people who are
> interested in Syria. We all paid our own way but the visas were approved
> by the Syrian government. The guards were not specifically for us but were
> volunteers - Civil Guards - who guard the churches every Sunday and the
> mosques every Friday. They were Christians and Muslims who are both
> fighting against ISIL and Daesh. The people we met with were those who
> have chosen to stay in Syria and try to reclaim and rebuild their country.
> Many of them were displaced from Aleppo and Homs and are currently living
> in the Kurdish and Syrian Army controlled areas of the country. They hope
> to return to their homes someday when the 83 countries occupying their
> country leave. We also visited refugee camps of Yazidi and Iraqi people
> who walked across the mountains to take refuge in Syria because their
> villages were controlled by ISIS. The Syrian saying about when elephants
> fight, the grass gets trampled is certainly true in Syria today.
>
> Tina
>
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:17 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>> Tina
>>
>> It’s a beautiful photo of lovely kids, that’s for sure.
>>
>> But in your previous post you mixed your presentation of photographs with
>> a seriously contentious statement, implying that Assad’s regime was perhaps
>> in the right. I decided not to argue with you about that, but by the same
>> token not to comment on your photographs.
>>
>> I don’t know under whose patronage you were in Syria, nor who provided
>> your guards. You can provide photographs for comment in isolation, but
>> it’s best that we don’t go down the route of arguing about which faction,
>> including the Government, is doing the damage in that ghastly civil war.
>>
>> Finally, I don’t comment on photographs in the ether. You are obviously a
>> busy photographer who has dedicated her life to documenting societies
>> across the world, to good effect. But I don’t expect to make comment and
>> never to receive a reply. I tried that every so often with Chris
>> Crawford’s photos and have never received a reply; so I sometimes look at
>> his photos but rarely comment.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> On 13 Jun 17, at 00:27, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I told myself I would not post here again since my last post about my
>> trip
>>> to Syria was totally ignored. I checked to be sure it was posted and it
>>> was. My posts on Facebook have received many comments but not a single
>> one
>>> here. Just in case, I'm trying one more time before I give up
>> completely.
>>> These are Syrian children who attend a school that is supported by our
>>> Syrian Working Group. We are trying to make it possible for Syrians to
>>> stay in Syria. If you read my first post, you know that the news we
>>> receive in the USA is very different from what the Syrians believe is the
>>> truth. We are just hoping the children will be able to make a difference
>>> in the future.
>>>
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/165612438
>>> <http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/165612438> <http://www.pbase.com/
>>> <http://www.pbase.com/>
>> tinamanley/image/165612438>
>>
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