In an ancient land such as Syria, there can be no examination of the problems of the present without reflecting upon the past. History, after all, is always the mother of the present, and geography the progenitor.
在叙利亚这样一个古国，当下的问题所带来的考验一定可以从历史中找到参照物。毕竟，历史总是当下的源头，而地理乃是源头中的源头。