THE BELMONT CLUB on Syria’s massacre of protesters. “The events in Damascus are being keenly followed in Beirut, where a collapse in Syrian power would immediately change the correlation of forces.”

UPDATE: Reader Marc Greendorfer emails: “You’ll know that the Syrian protesters are on the verge of pushing out Assad when the missiles start flying south from the Lebanon/Israel border.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Protests and shooting in Syria as unrest spreads.