BBC's Muir wallows in despair: "Qusair is an embarrassment to Damascus!"

Soon enough,  Muir will find Beirut 'inhospitable'...

"... But given the massive firepower deployed by government forces, and the fact that their assault was spearheaded by Hezbollah fighters, the fact that it took more than two weeks to achieve was an embarrassment to Damascus, which prematurely announced the town's conquest at the beginning of the campaign..."