Why Assad is winning and why America is letting it happen

This analysis by Michael Hirsh is largely correct. Bashar al-Assad is looking at what's happening in Egypt and realizing that there is no way that the United States is going to help depose him. And given the alternatives, maybe that's how it ought to be for now.

[T]his week, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin
Dempsey, finally said plainly what Obama administration