Hopenchange comes to the Arab League with a clenched fist

A close adviser of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the London-based Arabic daily Ashark Alawsat on Friday that 'positive change' is in the offing for the Arab world's relations with Syria: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to attend a regional conference (without the region's only democracy of course) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt next week. [Dr. Bouthaina Sha'aban, Syria's