WikiLeaks brags that its latest release of documents is  "embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria's opponents."

Because that's what you want to do, WikiLeaks: embarrass the people who are trying to stop the Syrian regime from engaging in all-out war on its own population.

Just to underline WikiLeaks' disgusting moral relativism, Julian Assange states that the so-called Syria Files "helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it." Right. Because Assad's decades of well-documented torture and totalitarian control and the overt connivance of rogue regimes doesn't help us understand what's really going on.

Those emails better be dynamite. They better show incontrovertible evidence that Western governments have bankrolled, militarized and diplomatically controlled Syria for the past forty years. Otherwise, this appears to be a huge distraction and publicity stunt, of no great value to anyone except a dictator who wants to put the rest of the world on their back foot.

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But really, that does seem like Craigslist-low pricing for decapitating a dictator.

A prominent Saudi Islamic scholar has announced a reward of $450,000 for killing Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, who he branded a murderer.

Not that Bashar Al Assad doesn't deserve it, but people really should be paid appropriately for the work they do.

Also, I can't help but think that if this actually worked, it wouldn't be long before heads of state all over the Arab world ended up as necks of state.

Again, not that they don't deserve it.

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The Syrian regime's violence against its own people has been horrendous. But the United Nation General Secretary's call for both the regime and those elements of the opposition that are fighting back to simply put down their arms and seek a political resolution is unrealistic.

To be sure, a political resolution must be found. But the regime can't play a part in it. The Bashar Al Assad regime and everyone associated with it need to go. There can be no meaningful discussion with people who pull the fingernails out of children and indiscriminately bombard entire neighborhoods.

Whichever way the regime ultimately crumbles, the United Nations should be taking steps to organize some intervention to prevent the wholesale slaughter of ethnic and religious minorities by members of what we nebulously call the Opposition. As we have seen in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia, when the dictator goes, Islamists rush into the gap, with lethal consequences.

Nadia Khoury is a Contributing Writer for The Propagandist

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Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin speaking to Channel 4 News hours before she was killed in Homs, Syria. The city was under assault by security forces loyal to Dictator Bashar Al Assad.More >>