people throughout the world and that s going to have big political repercussions. we re in this together. what about syria. i just got off the phone with friends in damascus, and it was quiet, but people don t seem to be coming out. it s pouring rain in damascus, and i think weather has been on the side of the police here but people are riveted by what s happening in egypt. everybody is watching al jazeera. some people believe that sooner it would spread to neighboring countries. it hasn t happened but yesterday, the last two days, that it might be a wakeup call for other countries for demonstrations like this because if it had been seen, joshua, as easy as protesters coming out and demanding that the president step out and he does, they may do the same thing. since there are these clashes now that happened, they re thinking that protesters and people in other countries in the