Weekend Economists Get Syri-ous August 30-September 2, 2013 [View all]
We watch the unfolding events in Syria, and wonder: what will this do to our world?
A nation self-destructing before our eyes can spread destruction beyond its borders. That is one of the problems with Globalism as a goal: cross-contamination. Pollution recognizes no borders, nor do refugees.
As a result of the ongoing Syrian civil war, there are currently two governments claiming to be the de jure government of Syria using different flags to represent the state. The incumbent government, led by Bashar al-Assad and the Ba'ath Party is using the red-white-black United Arab Republic flag in use since 1980 while the Syrian Interim Government, led by the Syrian National Coalition seeking to overthrow the Assad government readopted the green-white-black Independence flag in 2012.
History of Syria
The Syrian Arab Republic is a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq (with Kurdistan) to the east, and Turkey to the north. The modern state of Syria attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1936, but can trace its historical roots to the fourth millennium BC; its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mameluke Empire.--http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Syria
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