The Times of Israel asked two Israeli strategists to update their views on who — if anyone — should win in Syria’s civil war. A retired general, Shlomo Brom (now at the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv), and Prof. Efraim Inbar both told the on-line newspaper that it clearly would be preferable for Assad to lose. Brom’s assessment of a possible U.S. missile strike on Syrian targets was that it would not likely affect the outcome of the civil war — but it would deter Assad from using chemical weapons again. So that could be good.