Good luck working with Assad.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE reopened their embassies in Damascus, pushed for readmitting Syria to the Arab League, and are working towards improving their economic ties with Damascus.

In exchange, Bashar al-Assad is not willing to even arrest his cousin: a sanctioned world-class drug kingpin who roams the country freely and rides some of the world's fanciest cars every other day.

Time will reveal the inevitable; just as Jordan eventually did, they will in time come crawling in disappointment.