LP writes: " From the very beginning my interest in Syria has been focused
on what 
was taking place inside the country rather than on the Great Game that 
absorbed Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn and Pepe Escobar"

So you have only an academic interest in The Truth, and The Truth of point x
in abstraction from the rest of the world?

I can buy that. That is my interest in Eliot's The Waste Land or the account
Herodotus gives of the Persian invasion. And since you and I are in the same
position in respect to Syria that we are in respect to Herodotus, we might
as well take such a disinterested position.  That both provides intellectual
and emotional enj That both provides intellectual and emotional enjoyment
for us but may provide raw material for encyclopedias 50 years from now.

Very good.

Carrol


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