there should be no lifting of sanctions of any sort until there's a pathway to democracy.
from what i can see, this new regime appears to be worse than the previous one and should be treated with more severe sanctions than the previous one, not with lifting of sanctions.
this is a regime that just removed evolution from the school curriculum. that's what we're dealing with. they should be completely shunned and rejected by the international community, until the syrian people can rise up and free themselves from their tyrannical and fanatical imposition of backwards, dark age rules.