Amateur Hour

It’s hard to recall a more pathetic spectacle in the annals of American national security than President Obama trying in a speech to the nation to talk his way out of his proposed war in Syria via a transparently cynical Russian diplomatic initiative. There have been more damaging episodes, but perhaps none quite as cringe-inducing.
The president made a case for action, pounding his chest about the U.S. military not doing pinpricks, and then reverted to the unworkable Putin proposal as just the thing to defuse the crisis. He elided the fact that the plan — such as it is — issued from John Kerry’s gaffe in speaking off the cuff about how Syria could avoid a strike by giving up its chemical weapons. Kerry then added the important and sensible caveat that such a scheme wouldn’t work.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358262/amateur-hour-editors