Bashar Sba’i, a leading member of the Syrian opposition in exile, has thrown in the towel. He has quite the opposition movement and found an accomodation with the Syrian government that has allowed him to go home. Syria’s opposition movement is in shambles. Obama’s victory changed the calculations of the opposition in exile. US government supplied MEPI money, which sustained some, has dried up. But mostly, Syrians, who had hoped that President Bush would “reform the greater Middle East” as he

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