overthrow in 2011. whether the spasms of violence that have rocked egypt since the ouster last month of hosni mubarak s successor, the muslim brotherhood leader, morsi will be aggravated remains unclear. hosni mubarak will be retried on chargers that he injured protestors near the end of his reign. meantime, damascus is enduring renewed shelling by the government in syria s 2 1/2 year civil war. the regime pounding targets in the suburb not far from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack this week. appearing on fox news, the spokesperson for secretary of state john kerry defended the obama administration s actions, some wa say inaction, throughout the syrian conflict. i wonder what concern there is that history may reflect that syria was in a genocide or a civil war that claimed 100,000 people and the united states increased its aid and kept its options open. that s simply not an accurate depiction of what s happened.