Here's To The Christians

Janice Kortkamp

BrandonTurbeville.com

April 10, 2017

Written on April 10, 2017

I'm back in Damascus from Homs.

All around me are the sounds of church bells in honor of Palm Sunday.

Not 1 kilometer away are terrorist mercenaries who rain mortars on civilians here almost daily, and this part of the Old City is a particularly favorite target.

I wonder, as American Christians sit safely and comfortably in their churches...whether they have any understanding. 

Not much it appears.

If these terrorist groups, supported by the US and our allies, break thru the lines here so close to me, the church bells will no longer ring.

Not only will the minorities get slaughtered, but the Muslims too as our pet terrorists have killed many more Muslims than any other group. Sunnis, Alawites, Christians, Shiites...anyone of good will is targeted for persecution or extinction. 

I was talking with a Sunni friend here whose family fled before ISIS a few years ago. "They will kill us all" she says...meaning anyone and everyone who won't submit to their violent ideology.

So here's to the Christians...how long will you stay silent? 

A message from a Homsi to President Trump: "You suck."

Janice Kortkamp

BrandonTurbeville.com

April 10, 2017

Written on April 8, 2017

All day here, in Homs, Syria, I have been getting the people's reactions to the US bombing of the nearby air field and "You suck" sums them all up pretty well. A very dear close friend lost his uncle today, one of the leaders of that airbase. A man who had been fighting ISIS for years in Deir Ezzor.

Anger, sadness, frustration, disgust but not much surprise. While many here were encouraged by Trump's campaign rhetoric, they know that talk is cheap. They've been waiting to see if there might be some slim possibility of an American president who would not have a "shoot first, ask questions never" foreign policy.

Well, now they know. Nothing has changed. The allegations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government are asinine...stupid.

But not as stupid as our decades-long policy of arming, training, funding, recruiting, and lying for terrorists...packaging and branding them as "moderates" or "freedom fighters" while thinking we can control these demons.

You don't know America. You just don't know.

You can't train a rabid dog because they'll bite most viciously the hand that feeds them.

Friends and family with the best of intentions are urging me to leave here. I will not. In all the world, this is the place to be.