What was missing from Clinton's Syria announcement

As I'm sure most of you have already heard, Secretary of State Clinton finally said that it's time for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to 'get out of the way.' It's been three days since she said that, and yet it seemed so anti-climactic that there wasn't much I wanted to say about it.

Barry Rubin has dissected Clinton's speech calling for Assad to 'get out of the way' (has Obama even said it