SOME INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS ON SYRIA by Lee Smith:

A colleague in Cairo, Raymond Stock, notes an item from the April 23 issue of the Egyptian daily Al Ahram where Assad confessed that “weapons are being smuggled from Iraq into Syria.” This is both very odd and very tantalizing. While it’s unlikely that the president meant to confirm suspicions that Saddam Hussein moved his WMD supply to Syria before the war began last spring, it’s equally unlikely that someone is sneaking arms past the Bedouins and their boss.

So, what’s going on—in Assad’s head and more generally in Syria itself?

The most important thing we know about Syria is that we really don’t know what’s going on in Syria.

Seymour Hersh comes across as credulous.