Huffpost WorldPost Bernard-Henri Lévy Headshot  The End of the
Game in Syria  Posted: Updated:  Bernard Schalscha, this former
Trotskyist at my magazine, La Règle du jeu who, for the last
eight months, has been gathering information coming out of Syria
revealing the savagery of repression in Homs, Hama, and
Qousseir, is the one who introduced me to a recent exile of the
country. The man describes the tortured. Those cut down by
machine gun fire. The burial services the militia take advantage
of to make sure they make their quota of potshots. And the
clouds of smoke that rise like a veil of black crepe above the
heads that, even then, refuse to bow. For him, the cause goes
without saying. A power that behaves this way, a power that
assassinates so methodically, a power that plunges your head in
blood, your own blood, when you dare to raise it, is a power in
its death throes, cornered, done for, condemned -- it's merely a
question of days, weeks, but nonetheless doomed.  He is an
officer of the upper echelons o