My Country, at Its Best

Regimes come and regimes go, but friendship with the people of a nation endures. You earn that friendship when you stand with them in their darkest hours:

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets of the opposition stronghold Hama on Friday, bolstered by a gesture of support from the American and French ambassadors who visited the city where a massacre nearly 30 years ago came to symbolize the ruthlessness of the Assad dynasty.

The citizens of Hama, who supported the Muslim Brotherhood in their last great uprising, today decorated the car carrying America’s Ambassador with roses and olive branches.

The courage of the Syrians is something to behold. I hope the North Koreans will exceed it one day. They’ll have to.