Syrian President Bashar al-Assad returns to Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After 12 years of diplomatic sidelining, the "butcher of Damascus" is enjoying what is first and foremost a personal victory.
The page of war has been turned, and the Arab countries are assuming it will continue. But it poses a dilemma for Westerners, caught off guard by the return of the Syrian president to the top of the Arab world's most powerful club. It's a bitter-tasting pill to swallow, but it's the right thing to do.