To put things in perspective....

[WCGreen]

Watch the PBS Front line show this week. It's a up close and personal look at what is happening on the ground in Syria.

Ordinary people pushed in to extraordinary situations by the brutality of the Syrian dictator.

Watch it and wonder how we have been able to keep from the abyss for more than 200 years.

It's gut wrenching stuff, no glory, just people fighting brutality after decades of ham fisted leadership.

This is the part of the Arab Spring that has turned into open warfare with over 20,000 civilians killed.

Assad must be thinking it's now or never. He doesn't want to end up like Saddam or the Colonel over there in Libya.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These dictators never seem to know when it's time to get out.

I don't know where their blindness comes from; maybe from being surrounded by yes-men for so long, or what...

But they always seem to think that somehow they can prevail against their people who are no longer afraid to shed their blood for freedom.

If people like Assad had a lick of sense, they would realize that they are doomed, and the honorable way out would be to flee the country with whatever they could carry into exile.

At least they would live and not be subject to their citizen's wrath.

But no. They fight on and they are always brought down. Always.