Letter From Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/opinion/sunday/friedman-letter-from-syria.html

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Subject: re: Letter From Syria
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To the Editor:

   If it is Mr. Friedman's intent to extol the multiculturalism of Syria, why does he offer us the example of Antakya? Antakya is in Turkey.  We all know that--despite the expulsion of the Greeks and persecutions of Armenians and Kurds--Turkey is a multiethnic nation. But what is this supposed to teach us about Syria? That the modern national borders are arbitrary? Has Thomas L. Friedman achieved such august stature as a pundit that no editor dares tell him that he's making no sense?

Barry Haskell Levine