مجلس الامن يعتمد بيانا بالإجماع يطالب سوريا بتطبيق خطة انان ويحذر ضمنا باتخاذ إجراءات دولية

well the assad regime is over :)
if they spply these conditions they are doomed, and if they do not apply them they are doomed :)

The regime can not stop the killings. Any reduction in violence means hundreds of thousands taking the streets in protests. The regime will try to manipulate the annan initiative in the old fashion only this time it has to answer to the UN not the Arab league, Annan will certainly fail. Unless some real deal is struck between the west/russia I suspect russia will blame two sides for the violence and hence the failure of annan and things will go back to square one. This is just another chapter, the story is long and bloody. Time is not on the regime side, the regime & economy are getting incrementaly weaker by the day and the revolution/dissent is growing.

Gabby, would you say that the "ASSad" regime.. collapsed 7 months ago? perhaps will collapse this year as Dr. Fe2e3a Jadbeh last predicted? or perhaps collapsed in 2005 and then again in 2006 and then again in 2007... as you have been predicting day in and day out? You get the idea.

This is another watered down resolution that means nothing, resolves nothing, has no teeth and saves face for France for the time being. However, the hopeless hopefuls above (and eventually below) are hopeful about what it does not raise any hopes about. They are just happy to hear about a resolution without understanding a word of it. After all, they are not expected to think or analyze because, as their leaders told them, the leaders will think and analyze (successfully as has been apparent so far) for them. Too complicated? Never mind. Just pass it on to one of your leaders let them analyze it in their own failed way as their history has shown. Always the wrong calculations. Always the wrong ideas. Always the wrong alliances. But then, always the wrong leaders. Simply put, always wrong.

The only card russia has in these negotiations is the syrian regime. It will let go of it at some point in the future when it ensures its interest in the future syria is preserved. The US is okay with that, there is no oil and the US does not care much. Russia will do whatever it takes to keep the stability on the borders of israel. I do not see much russian conflict with the US really.

Assad is toast. Any outcome that leaves the Opposition standing with UN backing means that the Assad Regume is finished. Time now to recalculate. M14, if you guys are anything, now is the time to fill into the power void!