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Originally Posted by Juggernaut

Well, hopefully the doctor is fine, but it is still terrible what is happening in Syria, hopefully things will improve soon and the totalitarian regime will get thrown out.

When Syria's president Bashar al-Assad was elected president, he had a 97% vote. People expected him to be more democratic than his father but he was only moderately so. He considers Israel an enemy of Syria and constantly criticizes the U.S. for it's support of Israel. President Obama got the U.N. to freeze his accounts last month. He may be unpopular outside the U.S. but the Arab community still looks up to him greatly. I doubt the regime will get thrown out so easily.

All we can really do is hope his army tires of the bloodshed. They are only killing their own.

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Check this out. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...d-brother.html

I had no idea things were that bad there. This is pretty horrible.