of experts finally fed up with the mess. watching the syria debacle, one cannot help but think of f. scott fitzgerald's description of two rich, arrogant, and intellectually uncurious characters in "the great gatsby." they were careless people, tom and daisy, he wrote. they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. the u.s. secretary of defense, mark esper, says the cease-fire that was put in place in syria on thursday generally