If you woke up Sunday morning and you checked social media, if you follow anyone who's

Syrian, chances are, for once this year, you saw a decade of civil war,

Syrian rebels deposed the country's president.

Really, it's a dictator.

Statues of Bashar al-Assad got ripped down all across the country.

As Syrian refugees gathered in places as far away as Hong Kong and London.

Josh, you and I are speaking on Sunday, December 8th.

Can you describe the kinds of images we've been seeing coming out of Syria this weekend?

I mean, it's the kind of thing we haven't seen in over a decade.

That's Josh Keating.

He covers foreign policy at Vox.

I've been talking to a couple of Syrians over the past few days, and, you know, when you talk to them, the emotion is so palpable and, like, how long they've been waiting to see

this day.

You know, I think we can be cautious about what's coming next and be sort of level-headed

and not be too swept up in the moment without, you know, completely dismissing how truly

historic and important what we're watching is.

And the fact that, you know, one of the world's worst dictators. One of the sort of truly odious figures of, you know, the last 20, 30 years has now left Syria

and a regime that has ruled that country for over 50 years.

It's now been swept away in a matter of days. It's just truly

stunning. In a single week, Syrian rebels have torn across the country, first taking Aleppo,

the country's largest city, then the city of Hama, then finally the capital, Damascus.

The idea that they would just like storm down the highway,

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