What can Obama do about the brutal Syrian crackdown on protesters? Anything? Nothing?

US President Barack Obama has sought to show that there are limits to US reluctance to call for regime change in Syria.

By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA

If Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is testing US President Barack Obama’s resolve, so is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Both Middle Eastern leaders for reasons of their own want to know—barely 48 …