Ahmed al-Sharaa knows he cannot stand up to Israel's US-backed power.

“But when you have someone who becomes so incapacitated that they can’t stand up … to say that you’re just going to provide them with harm reduction and hope they don’t die, I think that falls short of the responsibility we have to each other and to the sickest people.”

Come next year, however, the question is: How many reputable lawyers, legislators and judges will we have left in government — and how many be willing to stand up to the president of the United States?

So there’s a lot of pressure on any new song to make it stand up to all the ones that have lasted for 50 years.

To try to make your new thing stand up to that canon is quite a challenge.