Both National Public Radio and (the eternally reliable) LA Times columnist Max Boot are singing slightly different arrangements of the same hymn today — pro-democracy dissidents in the Middle East need our help in order to bring democracy to their countries. NPR’s Deborah Amos interviewed a Syrian physician, Kemel Labouni, who had spent time as a political prisoner for his opposition to the Ba’ath Party dictatorship in Damascus. The willingness to speak out against tyranny in such a place speaks well of the man’s courage. (The fact that Amos was able to conduct the interview in the first place speaks … Continue reading ‘Please Bomb Us’