ANOTHER ASSASSINATION IN LEBANON. Michael Totten comments: “Those who ‘engage’ tyrants for a living need to pay more attention. The Syrian regime has had the same modus operandi almost as long as I have been alive. It’s time to catch up. . . . It’s amazing what third-rate fly-blown dictatorships get away with these days.”

They get away with it because we have a political culture that makes stopping them seem, somehow, unthinkable.