Well, America is distracted by the Partial Shutdown and the approaching debt ceiling default. That and the laughable right-wing nuts are coming out of the woodwork to embarrass themselves(more than once mind you) on CNN.

So yeah Syria is basically a dead Current News topic. I have to wonder, is the opposition really not who they claim to be (that they're really made up of a bunch of terrorists/fundamentalists) or is Assad's Army just that brainwashed into believing that? (There was a notable Frontline episode on the Syria War where they got the why each side is fighting from the actual combatants themselves)