Poll: Assad losing support among Arab world

[matt1985]

washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/poll-syrias-assad-losing-support-in-arab-world/2011/10/25/gIQA810zFM_blog.html

It doesn’t look good for Assad. I predict that he’ll be around for a year and 1/2. He can’t kill 12 protesters per day forever. But to me, the question is who replaces him? Will it be a pro western moderate who would be reasonable, or will it be a fanatic?

 

[Darryl1958]

Iran would have more say than the typical man on the street in any of the five countries polled.

The ‘leading from behind’ is rather nonsensical description of an American administration that is dazed and confused when it comes to having any coherent policy or idea of where American interest.