Mainstream American media outlets have willingly and openly embraced a narrative provided by Al Qaeda affiliates whose record of using chemical weapons in Syria and distorting and manufacturing "evidence" to promote anti-Assad policies in the west, including regime change, is well documented.
In Yemen, Saudi jets seem to have adopted Assad's policy of blowing up hospitals.
Meanwhile, the number of towns suffering under Mr Assad's policy of "submit or starve" has, according to US officials, risen to 18 in recent weeks, with 500,000 people at risk of starving to death.
If Obama could declare it was time for Gaddafi and Mubarak to go, this weekend's violence throughout Syria compels the White House to issue the same demand on Assad, with policy prescriptions to back that demand up.
"We basically think that the reason that Isil was able to get the safe haven that they have established in parts of Syria is because of Assad's policies.
She surprised Mr. Snow by granting him a live television interview on Sept. 4. Richard Roth, a former staff correspondent for CBS News, said of Ms. Shaaban, "I don't know that she ever made a convincing case for Assad's policies in any broadcast of mine, but she was swell TV: articulate, indomitable, official and — crucially — English-speaking".
Rather than being a bulwark against terror, Assad's policies contributed to it — a refrain that echoes in many corners of the battle against extremism.
Damascus sees Flynn, a skeptic of the opposition in Syria, and potential secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a critic of the kind of sanctions Iran is currently under, as figures who could guide an Assad-friendly policy, Kamal Alam, a scholar at the Royal United Services Institute in London and Levant consultant for the security firm Hoplite Group, told The Huffington Post.
While the Sunni majority has felt the brunt of Bashar al-Assad's policies, the country's minorities are integral to the revolution.
The major focus of Syrian interest in the Palestinian refugees has long been as an extension of the Assad regime's policy towards its neighbours – Israel and Lebanon.
