Regarding: ""The West should not determine who stays as a public figure and who doesn't," he said. "Those are things that have to be done on the ground.""
- The best thing that happen in the 'fall of the iron curtain'. Was that the citizens in those countries just had enough and then they walked.
- No doubt, as with Lech Walesa in Poland, US agencies contributed resources such as toner cartridges and such -- but all these case -- armies need were absent. 
- Hopefully 'leaders' like Assad will look around and see that everyone, except perhaps those who with them will be charged with crimes against humanity, has taken ten steps back and that there is no-man's land surrounding each of them.