After having pretty much no idea what was going on in Syria for the most part, finding out the extent of the protests and the reasons for them was totally shocking to me. I am not totally nieve about the fact that the middle east is obviously restless in many of its countries, and that not all of the governments are stable, safe, or have the best interest of the people in mind, they don't even attempt to pretend that their overall goal is to improve their nation.
Honestly I have never been so happy to know that I live in a place where I am free to write this blog post without the immediate fear of dying for what I say or expressing my belief on some issue whether in Syria or even in the United States. Syria has been rebelling and protesting against President Bashar al-Assad since the arrest of a group of young teenagers for anti-regime graffiti tagging and they were taken off to jail without their parents even knowing they were taken into custody. If that happened in the United States, there would be a giant law suite and a bunch of people in expensive suites chewing each other out. In Syria, instead of law suites, they just kill their own people. Since the protestors started after the arrest of these children, 6 Syrian's were killed by the government on march 18th, just 3 days after the arrests of the children.
Overall, Syria has serious issues and they are not going to be resolved by protestors continuing to lose their lives over a courrupt government. The United States does not need another war on our hands, so I am no suggesting we get involved, but someone needs to, before things escalate into an even more irreversible situation.
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