I’m not willing to call winners or losers here except in the broad sense, and politically, I think Pres Obama has accomplished what he set out to do. Syria will be emptied of CWs, but we don’t know, with any exactitude, how Assad’s war on his people is going to turn out.

At some point, the UN is going to have to step in with peacekeepers and Syrians are going to have to demand new elections.

At least, that’s the direction I hope things take, to stop the conventional carnage and to allow refugees to return home.