Walking Backwards Without a Rearview Mirror

Have you ever seen a street busker get his body inside a small box or can? It's really pretty amazing to watch as he wiggles and jiggles and brings his butt almost into his mouth as he scrunches into the small space. This is what Obama has done regarding his position on Syria.

He has Susan It-Was-The-Video Rice speaking on behalf of an attack on Syria, and she has as much credibility today as she did last year when she blamed some poor slob with a crappy video as the cause of the Benghazi attack. Why should we believe anything she says? It was Benjamin Disraeli who said: "There are three types of lies--lies, damn lies, and statistics." Rice's lie was of the second variety.

Bashar Assad spoke with Charlie Rose today and said that if we strike Syria, we can "expect everything." What that means isn't clear, but one can imagine terrorist attacks on our overseas embassies, or something on that scale. I don't believe it would end up becoming an all out war, but it certainly sounds bad. Here we have Obama saying we would do a surgical teenie weenie attack (Kerry called it "unbelievably small") while Assad implied that his retaliation would not go gentle into the night.

If the UN can somehow control Assad's weapons, Obama may be able to get out of the box he wiggled into. Thanks to Kerry's gaffe about what we would do if Syria turns over his chemical weapons to the UN for international control, Obama can now sit back and have Putin come to his aid. Now this will make Obama and thus the United States, look weak, but it gets Obama out of the corner he painted himself into, and to him, that's more important than the good of our nation.

Maybe Obama will come out of this with his head held high, but America will not be better off for his bravado and his red line.


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