The Corner  The one and only.  Syria: The Alternatives Narrow
What should the United States do when a vicious enemy is on the
ropes, defended only by a core of murderous loyalists plus
regimes that are themselves hostile to the United States?   If
you answered “Nothing,” you fail the course. If you answered
“make more speeches,” you too get an F.   The case in question
is Syria. There, an enemy regime faces hatred and opposition
from the vast majority of citizens. The Assad clan made a
specialty of helping kill Americans in Iraq, while also
threatening and often murdering any Lebanese leader who objected
to Syrian domination. It is Iran’s only Arab ally, and the
armorer of Hezbollah. It is the only real Arab friend left for
Putin’s Russia. There can be no doubt that the demise of the
Assad regime is good for the United States and bad for our
enemies.   It is quite clear that the Syrian people want the
regime ended, for many reasons: They hate the oppression, the
murders, the torture, the alliances with Shii