Informative post as always at Across the Bay: Is the Obama Administration Fed Up with Syria? Apparently previous reports about Washington sending a full Ambassador back to Syria are not likely to come to fruition, owing to the Syrians' unwillingness to change their spots.

Apparently the Administration is learning step by step that dictatorships like the Assads' lose their justification the closer peace and normalization come. Why bend for a few American duckets when the regime does perfectly well for itself sanctions or not, thank you very much. Read it all.