Syria's Regime Not Worth Preserving

Lee Smith argues in The American Interest against Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' endorsement of Kofi Annan's plan for a ceasefire in Syria since it would preserve the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the junior partner in the Iran-led resistance bloc and a destabilizing state sponsor of terrorism.

Ignatius' columns have shown over the years a careful cultivation of sources within the Assad regime, useful insofar as they were able to convey the policies, convictions and paranoid fantasies...