It’s Friday, so Syrians are out in the streets again protesting, as they have been on every Friday now for almost two months, braving the atrocities of a regime that has surrounded several Syrian cities with tanks and allegedly fired on its citizens with artillery.

Though the Obama administration demanded that Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak step down, and then jumped in alongside armed Libyan rebels to take on Muammar Qaddafi, the U.S. won’t even take action at the U.N. Security Council against Bashar al-Assad, a U.S. adversary. Why? Some observers say it is because the administration is worried about all those chemical warheads that might get loose with the fall of Assad. Others say it’s because we don’t know who follows Bashar, or because civil war could break out in Syria. And then there those who say it’s because Israel fears the fall of the Assad regime.