"Assad is not running out of weapons"

"... These are not concerns that dictator Bashar Assad’s forces have. The Brown Moses blog is a clearinghouse of reports on the weaponry used in Syria’s bloody civil war. And it shows just how uneven the conflict is. A report from earlier this month suggests that Assad’s air force drops thermobaric bombs, that is, bombs that light the air itself on fire, creating a massive shockwave.Similarly, Brown Moses collects evidence of cluster bombs used this summer by Assad.  While it’s hardly a surprise at this point that Assad would use weapons that cause a mass amount of damage — and, in fairness, the U.S. military used cluster munitions in the early phases of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars ... (Although it should also be said that there’s evidence the Syrian rebels are conducting mass executions of captured Assad soldiers.) Despite international sanctions on Assad, it doesn’t look like he’s running out of weapons. ... New intelligence reports indicate they’re flying in weapons over Iraq, a charge that the Iraqis publicly deny.  It remains to be seen how the U.S. and its allies can stanch the flow of weapons to Assad. Even if they can, the Syrian rebel foundaries still appear overmatched...."