Regime forces have lost 4 different regional capitals today, to various rebel factions in southern and eastern Syria. Seems regime forces are mostly defecting or retreating. It's an open question if there will even be serious fighting over Damascus. May fall without a serious fight, like Kabul.
If the national institutions are rotten, even substantial foreign blood and treasure cannot prop up an unpopular regime for forever, as we learned in Afghanistan, after the Russians learned in Afghanistan, and as the Russians are relearning now in Syria.
If the national institutions are rotten, even substantial foreign blood and treasure cannot prop up an unpopular regime for forever, as we learned in Afghanistan, after the Russians learned in Afghanistan, and as the Russians are relearning now in Syria.