Syria's Election May Be a Sham, But Assad Survival Still SurprisingThis sort of " I'm not pro-Assad, but...", is very like, " I'm not a racist, but...". The rebels who wre starved out of Homs have relocated to fight on other fronts. I could go through Bill Neely's talking points, seeing a pro-Assad bias in all of them.
"The rebels who vowed to fight until he fell are retreating and his opponents are in disarray across the country.
The West will have to live with a leader who is popular with significant sections of the Syrian people, not only his own Alawite sect, but Christians and many Sunni Muslims who now fear the rise of al-Qaeda linked militias and see Assad’s iron fist as, ironically, the only way of preserving a more tolerant Syria."