Why does the US keep ignoring Assad?

Joel Brinkley asks - but does not answer - the question that all of us should be asking: Why is the United States so enamored with Bashar al-Assad (Hat Tip: Daily Alert). A few weeks ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Assad is entirely different from Moammar Gadhafi, the embattled Libyan leader: “many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months