You know it's bad when you're approvingly quoting the Wall Street Journal approvingly quoting The New Republic, but that's where we are:
From Leon Wieseltier's "The Inconvenience of History: Obama abandons another country to its fate" in the New Republic, April 23: ... In Syria, for example, the tyrant enjoys the significant support of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, the Islamist rebels enjoy the significant support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the moderate secular rebels enjoy the significant support of nobody.
From Leon Wieseltier's "The Inconvenience of History: Obama abandons another country to its fate" in the New Republic, April 23: ... In Syria, for example, the tyrant enjoys the significant support of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, the Islamist rebels enjoy the significant support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the moderate secular rebels enjoy the significant support of nobody.