IT’S ABOUT TIME. John Kerry finally gives up on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as a reformer. “He obviously is not a reformer now,” the senator said.

Assad wasn’t a reformer earlier, either, and that was obvious to at least some of us all along.

Meanwhile, Jennifer Rubin reports that Marco Rubio intends to introduce a resolution in the Senate supporting the people of Syria against their dictator. We shouldn’t expect democracy there any time soon, but anything that hurts Assad, even if only slightly, beats doing business with him.