to figure for being here it is an honor tonight i also wish to thank my other family and my editor laurin and especially my family who got up early this morning they helped me believe it that this instance it with my significant other. but with a couple of paragraphs they had a really hard time with the beginning it asking me to write this i was visiting in doing a fellowship in el paso and a friend of mine to sit and i think they can get through this one then they said what do you think about it? in this is what i responded. when the rains fall in mexico bringing everything into focus his stands guard according to legend in line next to his lover. for better or for worse for my adopted home with it in the united states. a moment of forgiveness. >> that lovely passage from the book "midnight in mexico" a reporter's journey through a country's descent into darkness". >> rarely at the beginning of the book i will walk you through from 2007 i have been doing a lot of interviews on the radio out of mexico city when they were trying to celebrate the war. that evening come right before three na

host: let us go to laurin from illinois. theer: i think it is to forest to get into another war. they payd out iraq, this back with $100 oil and we are broke. linda scut alfred from florida on our democrats line. good morning. think the u.s. should mind their own business. we try to please the whole world. we try to police the whole world. you cannot go to the whole world like we own it. there has to be a place where the united states has to say we just cannot do this. we need somebody else to help us in this type of situation. all of these countries like great britain or china? in the unitede states that are starving, that do not have jobs. we do not have to get a involved in everything. let the syrian rebels by it out amongst themselves. images inre seeing the newspapers of some of the people who live in syria. this is a picture in "the washington times closed " -- -- -- washington times" the you see pictures like one we're showing right now of what is happening, does that does theur opinion, influence your decision on whether or not the united states should do anything? i miss