What with the daily murders now by his government forces – reports of policemen armed with knives barging into people’s homes in search of instigators and government marksmen on roofed stops assigned to kill people at random out on the streets, we shouldn’t be surprised by the rising tide of spilled blood. He is, after all, his father’s son, a father who responded to the Muslim Brotherhood in his day not only by killing 30,000 in the neighborhoods of Hama where they were important but another 20,000 in the much forgotten slaughter inside Tadmor prison in that same period. Assad, Sr. dealt with these challengers by, as I say, throwing 20,000 of into a prison, where once inside they were systematically machine-gunned and grenaded to death.

The opinions here in Israel of where this could all lead to in Syria are of course speculative. Some say it will be good for Israel when Bashaar and his corrupt relatives and cronies are driven from the country or killed; others say the opposite.

For sure one did not expect this morning’s news about the rising daily toll of blood in in Syria to find something funny but there on JPost hard copy’s front page was a small item that got a laugh of yours truly. The headline was “US official: Assad no longer potential peace partner for Israel.” Their Hilary Krieger in Washington reported that a top State Department official named Jacob Sullivan said that current Syrian government behavior “makes it hard to think about other diplomatic missions, like engaging Syria for peace talks with Israel.”

Why, just the other day Mr. Jacob Sullivan’s boss – nice name there; sounds like another product of yet another mixed marriage symptomatic of the shrinking of American Jewry – Jacob Sullivan’s boss Hilary Clinton was just the other day calling Bashaar a reformer.

As I say, this notice got a snort out of yours truly at the chronic, irritating stupidity of the pro-Syrian camp in America’s foreign policy establishment. Men like that antiJew fool James Baker who was always very big on courting Syria. He wanted to “flip it,” in his terms. Hilary’s hubby sent poor Secretary of State Warren Christopher (who recently passed away) to Damascus like 27 times in Clinton’s first term in office. And then there is the current fraud Sen. John Kerry who has gone courting in Damascus five times in the last 24 months of the Barack Hussein Obamanation administration.

Damascus has been a thorn in the side of civilization for thousands of years. What a terrible paradox/irony, that as access to information gets easier and easier, Western leaders grow dumber and dumber, less educated and learned by the day…