A siege is an “investment,” the military process of surrounding of a position. Bashar al-Assad’s forces and the Russians imposed a siege on the city of Aleppo during an offensive code-named Castello Operation, which cut off the city by July 7, 2016. On August 31, “rebels” launched a counteroffensive that broke the siege in less…
Mediocre people usually hate the exceptional
June 14, 2016
I’ve never been competitive. Therefore I don’t understand the hostility that the mediocre feel for those who are far more skilled. I was a mediocre student who was accepted into college only because I sent in the strangest application that the school had ever seen. Since my grades were bad, and I didn’t belong to…
Innocent, really stupid, and miserably unhappy
April 19, 2016
Not a day goes by without a stranger trying to disrupt my life by being what they think is shocking. They’re so innocent. I’m not capable of being shocked by negativity. What shocks me is improvement, which is why I write about the Middle East. Innocent of what can happen After a lot of thought,…