Looks like Assad has nowhere to run

Jordan's king Abdullah said yesterday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should step down for the good of his country, the first Arab leader to publicly make such a call as Syria's neighbours close ranks against an increasingly isolated regime. Syria's crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising has brought international condemnation, but Damascus generally has been spared broad reproach in the Arab world. That changed Saturday, with a near-unanimous vote by the 22-member Arab League to suspend Syria, and suspend they should because Assad has no business continuing to degrade the prestige of the state while accusing others of doing so, and I hope the revolution soon spreads to North Korea.