Recently I spent five days in Syria, arranging and overseeing an interview with President Bashar Assad for Fox News Channel. The interview, seen around the world, included Assad’s admission that Syria did indeed have a large stock of chemical weapons and that his country had joined the international agreement to prevent weapons of mass destruction.
There was a good deal more to the trip, however, than what ended up on television, particularly what we saw and heard on the road to Damascus.
Well over 100,000 plus people have died in the fighting in Syria since the civil war began in 2011. Instead of a number, imagine a sold out football stadium, and a big part of its parking lot full of people, and there’s your image.