How Long Before Assad Joins Gaddafi ??

[billt]

My humble prediction is to see weapons "smuggled" in to the protestors.

John McCain was just on TV talking about doing just that.

[Rastus]

The difference is that Syria has never made any attempt to cooperate with the West so BO will not put any serious pressure on them like with Egypt and Libya.
He will also throw the rebels under the nearest bus just like when the Iranian people were protesting.
BO's motto is "F*ck any friend and support any foe", Some one should make him reread that JFK quote till he actually gets it right.
This is a good example of how Ron Paul's "isolationist" FP is not practical. Even if we had a leader who would act we could not do so if we had no place to act from.
Which is what RP's policies would leave us with.

Exactly.

Yugo...remember it was well under control by Tito for a number of years.  It will likely remain under control after some additional bloodshed and murder by the Syrian government.  The thing to remember about this area is that family is everything.  So it's the brothers, uncles, cousins, etc. that work together and form a "government".  People who aren't family are the peasants.