omnipresent. it's the same phrase breaking down that wall of fear, same phrase we heard in egypt early on, people saying "fear had been defeated." it's interesting that the demonstrations in syria, that so far at this point the people have not been calling for the president to actually step down. and yet he's not taking that as an opportunity to kind of show his willingness to, you know, go after corruption, go after reform. >> that's right. although of course they are asking for things that would make it much harder for him to rule. they are asking for the release of political prisoners, they're asking for the lifting of the emergency law. those are the tools with which you keep enforced stability. but they are doing actually exactly what you would recommend, which is they're demonstrating peacefully and asks for reform. and that is, in fact, a position that the united states has supported for many years now where we've been pushing governments to meet the needs of