 ::Salamat ya Tiamut, ::Homs happens to be my father's town as well, and it's heartbreaking to see that city in ruins. The human loss is staggering, but the disintegration of the state (an already ailing and rotten one for that) and social structure of the country will be the legacy that'll really stick. Add to that the amount of unmitigated imbeciles (aka politicians). It's fascinating, opposition politicians are the biggest enemy of this uprising, and their terrible influence is only mitigated by the sheer brutality and idiocy of those criminals-in-chief in Damascus. The joke on the street is that we need to start a Local Coordination Committee for the Presidential Palace. But it isn't really idiocy, what they're doing is the only thing they know how to do, they're fighting for their raison d'etre; except, it's a war they can't win, but they can make all of us pay a hefty fee for losing. ::I can't edit the uprising article, unfortunately. I try to weigh in on the discussions every once in a while. But I'm already exhausted and drained by what's happening IRL and I don't think the Wikipedia page is consequential at the moment. Add to that my POV, which is not neutral nor (I suspect) encyclopedic, nor helpful (being mixed with all the emotional baggage) at the moment. I'd rather write about the history we weren't allowed to study or read, so that maybe we can all learn from it once this is over. ::At any rate, do know that you're always in our thoughts. In the midst of all this, I still feel guilty if I don't tweet something about Palestine everyday. Filasteen will always be our hearts' weak spot, and might just be about the only thing we all agree on as a people, before Baath, and after Ikhwan. Lots of good waves from your friends up north ;) ::Salamat   