Sunday, July 17, 2005
CNN: Syria travel boom despite trouble
DAMASCUS, Syria (Reuters) -- Strolling in the narrow lanes of the oldest inhabited city in the world, American tourist David Kummer says he feels safer in its old souks than on the streets of New York.
"It's safer than New York here but Americans are fearful of Arabs, they think they are all terrorists. Most of it is prejudice but I wasn't scared," said Kummer, 55, a teacher at a college in Valhalla, New York state, in the shady courtyard of an old Damascus home...
Dude...it's a police state. Hello?
Besides, it's in the nature of Fear Societies that they export their overt violence.
Jericho is way older than Damascas, and has been continuously inhabited.
There is even a building, a round stone tower, that is the oldest building in the world.