انان تلقى ردا جديدا من دمشق: السوريون هم الذين يجب أن يقرروا اذا كان على الاسد أن يرحل

This means nothing. It means that Syria is buying more time to continue with its liquidation program. There is no way under the sun that Syria will ever agree to anything that Annan is proposing, they just do this from time to time to reposition their Fourth Brigade and Republican Guard and then to continue the slaughter.
Shame on the whole world for using this subtrefuge to assauage their guilty consciences over not stopping this murderous regime.
The world will reap the worldwind for their criminal callous inactivity in the face of known evil.

Bye Bye March Farteen

Beiruti is correct 100%. Assad has used multiple UN actions, Arab League actions, and now Annan to delay everything and keep slaughtering.

If the "Friends of Syria" don't deliver then there is another game being played.

The result of the world inaction to the criminality of the Assad crime family, their Lebanese/Iraqi stooges (and their Iranian/Russian masters) is the creation of a huge population base for Al-Qaida in the Sunni population of Syria. the USA and Western Europe, driven by Israel, make the same mistakes since the 1950's with the same results without ever learning.

With Moscow and Peking's intransigence, the West has no choice but to go along with them until the dead end is obvious to all.
The Syrian Regime still thinks (wrongly) that it can still prevail by force. Fact is a substantial portion of the Syrians are in revolt and re-subjugating them is just not going to happen. Furthermore, after all the derisions and sanctions the West enacted against this Syrian regime and its leaders, it is impossible to imagine that any Western government will again deal with it.

that is just a diplomatic statement to please the russians. Everyone knows that annan will fail. This is just another chapter in the drama. I actually find all this in favor of the revolution. Time is by no means on the regime's side. do not be fooled with all the tanks and shells, the regime can attack but can not occupy. How many times have we heard about dara, rastan, douma, zabadani, idlib, etc being attacked? did the demos stop? did the revolution end? on the contrary they grew in size and popularity. Some revolutions last for years.

Saddam and Khaddafi were isolated. Syria has Iran and HA. If anything militarily to happen, I am sure, the situation will change quickly. It will turn into a major war.