gonna say it again: anyone with a clear shot at assad is morally obliged to take it. human rights watch pursues its careful style of documentation; they're torturing and killing children and cutting off internet access, practically the only way that images of what is happening can emerge. again, i cannot imagine why the u.s. response is so sluggish. today might be important: fridays across the middle east have been, and the syrian situation is surely at the breaking point.