4000 Hezbollah Fighters near Aleppo

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-04/219388-4000-hezbollah-fighters-reach-rebel-held-aleppo-fsa.ashx#axzz2VCTqVZrL

Previous estimates were that Hezbollah had 3,000-4,000 fighters in Syria. Now the estimates run between 10,000 and 12,000. 

The Syrians have just cleared a key area near Damascus. If they can secure Qusair and re-take Aleppo, that may well break the resistance.

We've seen this same back and forth before, in Libya. Qaddafi looked like he was finished, but then he recovered and started regaining ground. As he did so, the massacres became more frequent and, finally, the West intervened.

Is Assad's forces can secure Qusair, and begin a new offensive against Aleppo, Syria's largest city, there will in all probability be innumerable massacres and floods of refugees as the people who supported the various rebel factions flee for their lives. Of course, most of the refugees and victims of these new massacres will be Sunnis, and the perpetrators will be Shi'a. The hue and cry from the Sunni Arabs will be profound, and hard to ignore for Obama.