Misreading almost, everything!

Even (even) AngryArab did not read much in this wishful thinking story on cracks in the regime! Look at it this way: Our sources tell us that President Assad's entourage are saying that the silver lining of the events in Syria is that it will make 'extracting that bad tooth that much easier!' (In reference to bringing the XXI century to party politics in Syria, aka. defanging & trimming the fat off the Ba'ath party).

"... An American diplomatic official said it seemed increasingly unlikely that Mr. Assad could remain in power. As a result, he said, the United States has begun making plans for a post-Assad era out of concern for the chaos that many expect to follow, should he fall. The Obama administration, he said, does not rule out a civil war. “It’s going to be messy,” the official said ... In Washington, officials say President Obama may soon declare that Mr. Assad must step down ...
Turkey, once an ally of Syria, remains a wild card that could ease the pressure on Mr. Assad or intensify it. Its foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, went to Damascus on Tuesday, and American officials said he gave Mr. Assad a two-day deadline to end the crackdown. Though Turkish officials have said they are running out of patience, they still appear to hold out ... "We’re not on the same page,” the American official acknowledged.
In Damascus this week, 41 former Baathists and government officials took a step that would have been unthinkable for party stalwarts not long ago: They announced an initiative for a political transition. Led by Mohammed Salman, a former information minister with deep connections to the leadership closest to Mr. Assad, the group urged an end to the crackdown, the deployment of the military and the relentless arrest campaign... Some opposition figures dismissed the initiative as trying “to whiten its black page in the past.” But to others it represented a remarkable fissure, coming as it did from former ministers and senior party officials who at the very least acknowledged that change was inevitable.(look above)..."