Council on Foreign Relations: What Should U.S. Policy Be in Syria?

Rebel fighters take part in a demonstration against the Syrian regime in Aleppo on Dec. 7. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images Syria's Vice president Farouk al-Sharaa told a Lebanese-based newspaper in an interview published Monday that "We are not in a battle for the survival of an individual or a regime," seeming to suggest that President Bashar al-Assad might not have a role in Syria's