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I have only met in real life, ONE living, breathing person who knew what Aleppo was.... and he was a liberal progressive who follows politics very closely and I'm sure that the second he heard Johnson being questioned, he looked it up immediately and made sure he was well versed on the topic... ( Austin if you're reading this, I love you.)\nAt any rate... \n\nIt's important to understand the logistics of current events. When you have FOX News or CNN playing on your TV all day, you aren't able to form opinions for yourself because you aren't exactly given \"facts\" but rather \"events\" and those events are shrouded in words that create confusion like \"ISIS\", \"Hezbollah\", \"Assad Regime\", and \"Sunni-Muslims\", \"bombings\", \"terrorism\", and \"rebel forces\"... This is done for a reason because the media doesn't want people to have any kind of realistic perception of current events in the world. 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Filled with families who had lived on the same street for generations, this city was an almost untouched cultural hub in the Middle East - certainly a place that any world traveler might put near the top of places they would like to visit. Images of Aleppo are breathtaking. The city seemed to sparkle with a mystical, hypnotic energy. Now the images are grey, dust hangs thick in the air, and the beautifully sculpted buildings are pockmarked with holes. \n\nSo, what happened to it? \n\n1. In 2011, \"Arab Spring\" (a movement against certain countries governments in the Middle East due to lack of freedoms and general economic woes of the people) removed Tunisian and Egyptian presidents from power. These revolts gave hope to certain Syrian groups who were interested in the same governmental coups. \n2. 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There will be more cities destroyed by this war; more lives lost. The respite for these refugees is likely only temporary. \n\nThe point of this is not for you to choose a side. Choosing sides is unrealistic and schismatic as the fighting here is many generations deep and pertains to religious and political factions that many of us do not identify with. This specific civil war can be traced back to the beginning of Bashar al-Assad's father's reign, Hafez al-Assad, who became President in 1971 (and further). He instituted a new Syrian Constitution which did not require the Syrian President to be Muslim, which infuriated the Muslim Brotherhood organization and began many years of attempted uprising during HIS presidency. \nTo be sure, this is not a conflict that can be resolved easily. There are many factions involved. Even the rebel forces have issues being united as there are many different religions and groups represented among the rebel forces. 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