The Arab League monitors

Of course, nothing that the Arab League does can or should be taken seriously.  And nothing that it does it does on its own without outside orders from DC.  But the mother of all jokes is that the head of the monitoring team is a military general who is a protege of the Sudanese dictator.   Yes, he should be the judge about human rights violations by the Syrian regime.  This is like sending a Bahraini security force to evaluate the plight of minorities in Saudi Arabia.