It's not all that uncommon to hear protesters outside of my work. But never have I heard a group so angry as the ones who marched on us yesterday. Generally, we get notices when there is going to be a demonstration. This one was unannounced. They were loud and aggressive, waving placards and shouting from a bullhorn. Almost all of the women had their faces covered. All were Muslims, members of a group with a name that left little question as to why they were there.

You can hazard a guess as to what they were protesting.

What is so striking about the scene that played out yesterday outside my office was not the loudness or the aggression or the anger that was on display. It was the fact that had these people been a Muslim country and protesting government action, they would have, in all likelihood, been fired upon. Like the government in Syria is currently doing.

I don't have a problem with protesters. I'm one of the biggest First Amendment proponents you'll find. I would encourage protesters, no matter what they were protesting. But the irony here is the government they were protesting and the country they were protesting in are two of the few places in the world where they are welcomed with open arms. One sign I saw read 'United States, Britain, and France - Trinity of Evil'.

I get that they're angry. I get that they don't like us in Muslim lands, "waging" war against Muslims. But I have to wonder if we had stayed out of it, if we'd continued to allow tyrannical leaders to ruthlessly massacre their own people without a second thought, would they be begging us to do something? I'd like to think they would.