Has Syria's Assad won?

[mojaveman]

As the eyes of the world and the media turn to Ukraine, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has quietly been making momentous gains in his three-year civil war with rebels that all but assure he will leave office on his own terms.

Don't like him but don't know about the people who would have succeded him either.


http://news.yahoo.com/latest-victory...111500116.html