This article is actually the transcript of a National Public Radio broadcast. The broadcast starts off with the host interviewing a Professor from Gerogetown University who wrote an Op-Ed for the Washington Post arguing that the US "should train the rebels and use tough love to cajole and reward the opposition." A few topics discussed on the radio show really stood out to me. One was a call made by a woman who compared US involvement in foreign revolutions to the French involvement in the US revolution. Whenever I think about US involvement, I never relate it to our own revolution and how we would never have been able to complete it without foreign help.
Another part of the article I found interesting was a women named Minette who called in. She said that her husband and much of her neighborhood have family in Syria. She said that they are unable to go outside for food, and are afraid to talk on the phone because they are afraid of being murdered for saying something the government does not like. I can't imagine what it must be like to constantly live in fear like that. It makes me really want to support the US involvement and end the mistreatment.
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