 It's hard to believe now, but many people didn't really see it coming yet in Syria. It started as some brief protests from typical political opponents within cities like Damascus, but it quickly rippled outward into the countryside. And it was really the regime's reaction to those initial protests and calls for reform that made it spiral outward into a larger, more violent conflict that we see today. Yeah, I mean, is that basically the reason why things became so terribly violent then in 2012?