Homs Shelled, UN to Send Observers

I hope no one seriously expected the cease-fire in Syria to actually hold. Both the Assad government and the Free Syrian Army found the prospect of a breather to be in their interest. Otherwise they would not have agreed to it.

The cease-fire barely had a chance, though. None of the outstanding issues that led to the conflict in the first place have been resolved. Assad wants to maintain his power and his enemies want regime-change. There’s no splitting that difference. The two sides are not g...