Syrians used to tell a joke about a survey that asked “what is your opinion of eating meat?” This was during the Cold War, so people in Poland answered, “What do you mean by ‘meat’?” In Ethiopia, the response was, “What do you mean by ‘eating’?” But in Syria, the universal response was, “What do you mean by ‘what is your opinion’?”
Read the rest of the article in Charles Glass’s new e-book The State of Syria: Past, Present and Future.
