Sensible assessment of Syrian stiuation

Thus spoke comrade Bassam:  "“The more deaths and killing, the more the labyrinth of sectarian and social divisions is mended, and the more likely we are to see broader collective action against the regime,” said Bassam Haddad, director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University, near Washington. “At that point, the regime’s security forces would have to be stretched too critically thin to contain the situation.”"