I think maybe I've been in the middle east too long. It strikes me that the Syria pic looks quite normal to me, and the DC pic looks ominous & threatening. I'm surrounded by guys wearing keffiyah every day, but black figures on top of some big DC building -- now that's scary. Anyhow, this is a tourist site in Damascus, which is still disputing its status as "oldest inhabited city in the world" with Aleppo, up the road.
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lucy, was this when we went to dc together?
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context: yes, this is in dc cooper. It's the top of one of the smithsonian museums right after Obama's inaguration speech.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe I've been in the middle east too long. It strikes me that the Syria pic looks quite normal to me, and the DC pic looks ominous & threatening. I'm surrounded by guys wearing keffiyah every day, but black figures on top of some big DC building -- now that's scary. Anyhow, this is a tourist site in Damascus, which is still disputing its status as "oldest inhabited city in the world" with Aleppo, up the road.
ReplyDeleteJW - I agree. The DC photo is disturbing because the black clothed people look like snipers to me. They probably are.
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