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Foreign Intervention in Syria? A Debate With Joshua Landis and Karam Nachar. Part 1 of 2
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17:42Now Playingdemocracynow.org - With estimates of well over 5,000 deaths, the uprising in Syria is all but assured to be the Arab Spring's bloodiest conflict to date. As the toll mounts, calls are growing for the international community to intervene by arming rebels fighting the Assad regime and even direct military intervention. Democracy Now! hosts a debate on the merits and pitfalls of foreign intervention in Syria with two guests. "I'm not opposed to helping the opposition -- the problem right now is that we are not sure who to arm," says Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and editor of "Syria Comment," a daily online newsletter on Syrian politics. We're also joined by Karam Nachar, a cyber-activist and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University working with Syrian protesters via social media platforms. "There's a humanitarian disaster unfolding on the ground," Nachar says. "[The world has] a moral responsibility to protect the Syrian people."
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