re: #495 Ace-o-aces

Grudges are the driving force of politics in the Middle East.

At one of the places I worked as a machinist a pair of brothers from Lebanon were among my co-workers. They were nice enough guys and when we’d known each other long enough to have a toke together in the parking lot after work one of them told me his real name on condition that I never use it in front of anyone else. Turned out that their family had sent them to America because of a thirty year old feud with a family living in Syria. Tit for tat murders had been going on for years and the brothers’ family didn’t want to lose its last two young men.