IRONY IS DEAD AND ASSAD KILLED IT

We don't ask for much from Assad. Just the tiniest bit of self-awareness. A minimal recognition of the rhetorical and political position that he's speaking from. No such luck:

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that the Israeli government was too weak to make peace with Syria, stressing that negotiations must resume from the point they had last reached in 2000... Assad said, addressing the first session of the parliament's 9th legislative four-year term. He warned [about] "weak governments in Israel"

In fairness to Israel, it's much harder to have a "strong government" when you're not enforcing ideology by rounding up dissidents. But then again, we can't all inherit police states from daddy.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]