Bashar al-Assad’s speech today, promising reforms and evincing paranoia, has done little to quell the three-month-old uprising against him and his regime. “Liar, liar,” opposition forces chanted in Lattakia.

Both inside and outside Syria, some think it’s too late for Assad. French foreign minister Alain Juppe says Assad has reached “a point of no return.” Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak says that Assad is on his way out within six months. The Syrian president, Barak told the AP, “ended up using too much brutal force, too many graves have been dug and he lost practically his legitimacy in the eyes of the Syrian people… He probably will stay around for another quarter or two but that will not change his fate.”