Syria is looking for more time. It is promising cooperation on a broad scale but has launched diplomatic contacts to try to slow things down,

Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington sees its desire for democracy fulfilled.

I don't know know how they're going to get Saad Hariri back home.

Syria's in for a very dark period ahead, ... The president is in a real struggle to keep people close to him.

They worry they are the ones that are going to eat all the revenge and discrimination, if the state falls, they are going to pay the price for the privileges of a few.

It offered a secular vision of Syria that would dismantle very serious religious splits.