Syria: When the Russians start bailing on you, it's probably time to start packing

The deputy foreign minister for Russia may be reading Best Defense: "We must look squarely at the facts and the trend now suggests that the
regime and the government in Syria are losing more and more control and more
and more territory."

Speaking of crummy things, several of you have written to me
protesting the latest changes in this blog's commenting system. I agree: This
morning the system wouldn't even allow me to read the comments. It seems like
every time the LiveFyre system settles down, some genius comes up with a new
fillip to screw things up again. I have complained to the authorities.