Last minute goal helps Qatar edge Palestine 1-0Shitting on their poorer neighbour at the last minute may be a metaphor for something.
Syria aren't defending their title. It won't be a normal country again until Assad is overthrown. If, however, each time he raises the level of barbarity the story is spun as the "threat" (or more insanely, the "actuality"[sic] of same) of Western intervention, he may still be in Damascus for some time.