Yesterday when Russia played fetch with the Security Council I wondered if Putin had gone a step too far. It’s one thing to lead Obama around, it’s another to kick sand in the whole country’s face. That’s the kind of thing that with leadership could galvanize the Senate and House of Representatives.
Last night Obama didn’t pull on the over-reached punch, he gave up an advantage.
So, after the Russian switching, the candy Putin will use to steal Obama’s base.

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”

Noonan’s source was right, he is looking for a Nixon or a Reagan.
Via, Instapundit

Eleven days ago Elizabeth O’Bagy, a Georgetown Ph.D. and senior analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, wrote an op-ed in the WSJ suggesting that, contrary to media reports, “the war in Syria is not being waged entirely, or even predominantly, by dangerous Islamists and al Qaeda die-hards.” Her attempt to correct what she argued was widespread misinformation about the true nature of the Syrian opposition forces was based on her own first-hand, extensive, on-the-ground experiences with various rebel groups in Syria, so it seemed fairly convincing.
Four days later John Kerry told members of the House of Representatives that they should inform themselves about the true nature of the Syrian opposition by reading O’Bagy’s article. What he and the WSJ article failed to mention (the WSJ has since updated) was that O’Bagy was also the paid political director of the Muslim Brotherhood-connected Syrian Emergency Task Force, a group that advocates to U.S. audiences on behalf of Syria’s rebels and subcontracts with the current U.S. administration “to provide aid to the Syrian opposition.”
Today, a new development about 26-year-old Elizabeth O’Bagy, the woman whose expertise John Kerry invoked in his attempt to convince opponents of U.S. military action in Syria to get onside:

The Institute for the Study of War has learned and confirmed that, contrary to her representations, Ms. Elizabeth O’Bagy does not in fact have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University. ISW has accordingly terminated Ms. O’Bagy’s employment, effective immediately.

Following the US administration’s takes, retakes and gaffes on Syria and the Russian proposition is turning into a head-ache.

Still, the United States said it would take a “hard look” at the plan although State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said “we can’t have this be another stalling tactic.”

Clinton just referred to the "Kerry proposal," the same one US official called a "major goof" minutes ago.

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianLAT) September 9, 2013

I think it’s pretty much a given that the Russian plan will go forward, the UN will love it, the Security Council will approve it and it gives everyone an out.
The only trick now, as seen by that tweet, is how to play it so that it isn’t seen as an off the cuff remark by Kerry but gosh-darned State Dept. policy put forward by the Messiah.

Prior to After Kerry’s “unbelievably small” comment and one-week ultimatim (which is, well, unbelievable). We see this:

Syria welcomes a Russian proposal to place the nation’s chemical weapons under international control, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday after talks in Moscow, praising the Kremlin for seeking to “prevent American aggression”.

The Russians, showing the world what tools Obama and the US regime are.
Update: Nevermind, it was rhetorical, we still want to go to war!

Pearl Harbor not an act of war, just a limited air strike with no boots on the ground #Obama #Kerry #LiberalLogic pic.twitter.com/rAuA1PHTQ0

— basevolgal (@basevolgal) September 5, 2013

By now, everyone has seen the Missing in Action post about Hollywood’s most notorious peace-niks. (Link via Syd in the Readers Tips.)
You may also have read Ed Asner explaining why.

“A lot of people don’t want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama,” he said.

I find that answer utterly gratifying.
The Syrian vote is going to fail. There’s no going back now. The President has no respect in the world now and won’t lose any more when Congress slaps him down. It was the people who stopped it. Congress has been flooded with communications and if lawmakers vote their constituents wishes as opposed to a whipped vote, any Congressionally approved Syrian war is done.
The activist actors accomplished nothing in the last ten years except to silence themselves. They, on their career soapboxes, defined the Tea Party, Romney, the evils of conservatives. They used racism as the de facto root cause of criticism of Obama.
Now their hands are tied by their own ill-concieved and misguided beliefs. They have been revealed as the partisan hypocrites we always knew they were. Looks good on them.
What is the worst thing to do to an actor? Take away their voice. Best thing? We didn’t do it to them.

The Midnight Ride of Paul Barack Revere Obama:

One if by land, and two if by sea, and three if by air, and four if by drones .  .  . Or is it two if by land, and one if by sea? .  .  . However, there will be no deployment of Colonial ground forces. So it’s two if by ship-launched cruise missiles .  .  . Or is it three if by airstrikes? .  .  . Anyway, the British aren’t coming.

… we are gradually coming to a boil:

But if these people don’t have the first idea of what is happening to them, we can take heart. For, while they preen and clatter, their voices are less influential than they have ever been. Not for nothing have I stopped calling their trade, the Mainstream Media (MSM). That accords them too much weight and authority – they are the minority opinion: “legacy media” is a far better description.

… more at EUR.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” Obama to Romney 10/2012

— Teri Peters (@hipEchik) September 6, 2013

Says the guy who can’t stop comparing a Syrian war with WWII.