“We Don’t Like You!”

Syria's astonishingly brave democracy protesters take to the streets again today in large numbers in Homs, and in several cities and towns. Not since the Green Revolution have demonstrators persisted in nonviolence despite a murderous response from a scruple-free regime:

“It looks like we have reached a dead end and we don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel,” said Aref Dalila, a leading dissident who met this week with Bouthaina Shaaban, a government adviser, who has opened talks with opposition figures. “The country that we know will not be able to survive; it is from the past. The current situation is dead; it is from the past. We should acknowledge the fact that change is needed and very necessary, and it will happen no matter how hard we try to resist against it.”