NYTimes piece
The failure of an Arab League mission..., an international community with little leverage...a government as defiant as its opposition is in disarray...
The opposition speaks...about a civil war that some argue has already begun...some soldiers have defected from the military, the more essential security forces..have remained cohesive...[thus] his [Assad's] fall is not imminent or even likely.
Although innocent people are being killed this slow-mo civl war has the advantage of draining Hezballah, Russian and Iranian resources so maybe the Obama Admin's weakness isn't such a bad thing.
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