Oh my... Gates calls on Syrian army to stand aside and let Assad be overthrown

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called on the Syrian army to stand aside and let Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be overthrown. Drawing a parallel between the unrest in Syria and the protests that unseated Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, Mr Gates said: “I’ve just come from Egypt, where the Egyptian army stood on the sidelines and allowed people to demonstrate and in fact empowered