To the Editor:

Regarding Barbara Truncellito’s poem (“Crisis in Syria,” 12/7), she states that a cab driver of Syrian descent picked her up for a ride to her destination onarainy day. She then poses a questionbut left me, as one reader, hanging for additional information as the letter progressed to its conclusionwithout anyfurther comment by the writer.

The question I think she posed to theSyrian cabbieor herself was“How many innocents have died in the Syrianongoing, two-year ‘civil’ war?”

December 21, 2016