I miss Barry! He was a great friend to me when I first got to Israel.
There's still going to be a huge fight (I believe) in Syria but my gut feel is that the strongly Islamic elements trying to go full Sharia State aren't going to win the big cities so easily.
It is key to understanding the Shiite vs Sunni split which is now going to got at each other hammer and tongs for a while too.
Overall the concept of a "Syria" as a modern nation state, just like all the other colonial creations in this region, is defunct and should be broken up.
The irony: the only non colonial invented state in the whole region is Israel. The one that all the idiot kids and their Oxbridge and Ivy league Marxist professors call a settler colonial state.