Why Bahrain Is Not Syria - by Pepe Escobar
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/02/why-bahrain-is-not-syria/
"...So just to recap, US President Barack Obama told Syria's President Bashar al Assad to 'step aside and allow a democratic transition to proceed immediately,' while King Hamas al-Khalifa gets new toys to crack down on his subversively pro-democratic subjects..."