Syria: The Iraqi stereotype?

The Arab League has declared it has given its observers in Syria more time for their mission. Head of the mission, General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, is to give a report on the League on January 19 on Syria's compliance of the plan, as the ministers in Cairo said. Is this mission merely a pretext for foreign intervention? Will Syria witness more instability and haphazard bombings in the coming days, and transform into a new Iraq? Source