MUSICAL CHAIRS IN OLD SYRIA – AT 9:02 A.M. ET:  Cosmetic surgery has come to Syrian politics.  A new facelift is under way.  From AP:

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian state-run television says the Cabinet has resigned as the country sees the worst unrest in decades.

President Bashar Assad accepted the Cabinet’s resignation following a meeting Tuesday.

The resignation is the latest concession by the government aimed at appeasing more than a week of mass protests.

Assad is expected to address the nation in the next 24 hours to announce he is lifting the emergency law and moving to annul other harsh restrictions on civil liberties and political freedoms.

COMMENT:  The only problem here is...Bashar Assad.  Assad is Syria's dictator.  As long as he remains dictator in one of the harshest of Arab states, none of these changes will mean a thing.  But, although the U.S. has intervened in Libya, it has pledged not to intervene in Syria, a far more important country.  And our interest in Iranian freedom seems nonexistent. 

The policy is confused and contradictory, but, let's face it, community organizing is not the same as world organizing.  The world is bigger, and they talk funny.

March 29, 2011