Bashar al-Assad is out of power after a brutal 24-year ... then the first person leaving office, then Bashar laughing. Now that he has, indeed, gone, the Assad Must Go meme is officially dead.

Awkward and gangly, his mannerisms unassuming, at least until he opened his mouth, Bashar al-Assad exuded none of ... clad in a leather jacket, laughing as he fired shots at unarmed protesters ...