It also sounds like we are finally fighting a war instead of being "sensitive".
Maybe since Alawii gave us permission to go after the mosques, with his edict that if the rebels used them for weapons depots, they were no longer off limits - which would have been bedlam before - we can mop them up...
combined with the press maybe getting the message that we are not going to allow another debacle like the 1970's driven press-kerry-VAVW - they'd better play it a bit straighter...or we'll reduce them to non-relevency - and they go join Gore/Kerry/Clinton/Rather sipping cool-aide juleps.