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Summary: More than 93,000 lives have been lost in the two-year-old civil war in Syria. What, if anything, should the United States do to help end the conflict? We hear from Matthew Van Dyke, the self-described freedom fighter and filmmaker who recently released a short documentary short about the uprising and war; Kimberly Katz, associate professor of history at Towson University and an expert on the Middle East and North Africa; and Shamoo Adil, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and an analyst affiliated with the Institute for Policy Studies think tank.