WaPo: For Turkey & Israel, 'Assad may not survive & if he does, he will be dangerously weak!'

"... The first problem, is that the United States “doesn’t have a Syria policy. It has a Middle East peace policy, but not a Syria-specific policy.” The Obama administration’s “engagement” policy for Syria was centered on obtaining results in other countries: peace for Israel, stability in Lebanon, the isolation of Iran. One reason it has been so slow to abandon Assad is that it would mean setting aside a mind-set that perceives Assad as capable of delivering those breakthroughs.....  there are the neighbors to whom Obama would defer — Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel. But in the latter two countries, at least, there has been a shift in the past couple of weeks. A realization is dawning that Assad may not survive — and that if he does, the regime will be dangerously weak..."