U.S.-NATO Missiles/Bombs on Syria within 15 to 25 days . . .

[ben ji]

So is Syria turning their chemical weapons over for good? Does whoever wins the civil war get the weapons back?

I'm confused.

[Dugout DickStone]

How much time has to pass before we (the U.S.) can't really say we're reacting to Syria's alleged use of Chemical weapons?

All this jerking around and posturing to try and preemptively distinguish the impending bombing of Syria from Iraq is god awful, horrific foreign policy, and just another example of how terrible B.O. is at his job. 

Doing nothing is fine with me, and doing something right away at least sends the message that "'merica won't stand for that type of violence", but this approach is like picking the worst of both options because it accomplishes the goal of neither while suffering all the consequences.  Like someone who is lactose intolerant deciding to drink milk, but only after its expired.

So, your analogy is pretty great there.  credit where credit is due

[felix rex]

speaking strictly as an observer of foreign diplomacy, this has been a great rough ridin' ride.

It's so hilarious, isn't it? I mean I didn't really get a chance to see anything until the 11 o'clock news, and I literally laughed out loud during the story.

I had no idea what was going on until I turned on the news yesterday afternoon and saw Hillary speaking with a ticker that said "Clinton calls Russian proposal on Kerry's off-script remark a 'good step'". Obviously, I was hooked immediately.

The former secretary and potential presidential candidate endorsed a proposal from a rival with whom we currently have exceptionally tense relations based on a gaffe from the current secretary and failed presidential candidate made while trying to explain the current president's plan that firing a missile from the ocean into syria a month after a chemical attack would be a deterrent (all while Assad's wife is looking FABULOUS on instagram).

What's not to love here? It's just amazing television. I mean, it's pretty clumsy governance, but AMAZING television.

[sonofdaxjones]

Congrats to Vlad, new leader of the free world for getting this "deal" off the ground.

Meanwhile, Russian Coast Guard ships are threatening to shoot Greenpeace ships if they interfere with Russian gas exploration in the Arctic.

The Chinese and the Russians . . . A new world order.

[bubbles4ksu]

It will be interesting to see what the Hard Left Blogosphere and the Harvard Legal Experts think of ObamaWarMonger's failure to maintain his status as The World's Biggest Arms Dealer. You know the Obamabot pissboys will defend him no matter what. They'll probably maintain the "Concerned With Hezbollah" act and talk some more about Sarin gas. I'm probs just being Captain Obvious here.

also, great news for american taxpayers about russia and china stepping up to ease the american role as world police.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

It was just becoming waaaay to much of a hassle to be leader of the free world. I'm glad Russia is going to give us a breather. Plus, now the world will love us more.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

From Second City:  

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

It was just becoming waaaay to much of a hassle to be leader of the free world. I'm glad Russia is going to give us a breather. Plus, now the world will love us more.

As GWB once said, "Being the President is hard".

[gatoveintisiete]

Putin will pull the rug out from under Obama on this deal.  Just when you thought we couldn't look any dumber.......

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Putin will pull the rug out from under Obama on this deal.  Just when you thought we he couldn't look any dumber.......

FYP

[p1k3]

Watch the Racist Patrol may drop by. You guys may have crossed the line 

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

Putin will pull the rug out from under Obama on this deal.  Just when you thought we couldn't look any dumber.......

Is it "pulling the rug out" if Obama already knows that this "deal" isn't going to do a damned thing, which he most certainly does? Show of hands: who here thinks Assad is actually going to give up his "WMD"?

Obama doesn't actually believe in this "deal." Pussy, yes. Incompetent, yes. But he's not a total rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). This just gives him the convenient life line to pull back from actually having to take any military action because he stupidly gave an ultimatum that he had no desire to actually enforce. So now Putin sweeps in and kills two birds with one stone: He gets to make Obama (and by extension, America) look like the incompetent little weakling he is, and he gets to help his buddy Assad with a little "wink wink" deal that will never be enforced. Somebody call Hans Blix out of retirement!

Congrats liberals - you finally got Jimmy Carter's second term. Aint it swell?

[michigancat]

Putin will pull the rug out from under Obama on this deal.  Just when you thought we couldn't look any dumber.......

Is it "pulling the rug out" if Obama already knows that this "deal" isn't going to do a damned thing, which he most certainly does? Show of hands: who here thinks Assad is actually going to give up his "WMD"?

Obama doesn't actually believe in this "deal." Pussy, yes. Incompetent, yes. But he's not a total rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). This just gives him the convenient life line to pull back from actually having to take any military action because he stupidly gave an ultimatum that he had no desire to actually enforce. So now Putin sweeps in and kills two birds with one stone: He gets to make Obama (and by extension, America) look like the incompetent little weakling he is, and he gets to help his buddy Assad with a little "wink wink" deal that will never be enforced. Somebody call Hans Blix out of retirement!

Congrats liberals - you finally got Jimmy Carter's second term. Aint it swell?

lol

[Dugout DickStone]

So now KSU Cats is pissed because Obama isn't bombing Syria?  Tough crowd

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

So now KSU Cats is pissed because Obama isn't bombing Syria?  Tough crowd

Not pissed, just disgusted. He put himself in this position to begin with with an ultimatum he never wanted to enforce, and now he further degrades American prestige by being a pussy.

[Dugout DickStone]

But, if he had bombed Assad, you would also be critical, right?

[michigancat]

this really sucks because American prestige was at an all-time high before the obama being a pussy thing

[michigancat]

this really sucks because American prestige was at an all-time high before the obama being a pussy thing

thanks obama

[OregonSmock]

If President Obama was a Republican, the right wing herd would be talking about how he just bluffed Putin into taking action on Syria, without spending a single dollar or dropping a single bomb.

God bless the herd.

[sonofdaxjones]

Just waiting on the legions of Obamabot Zombies to roll out the Narrative that this was Obama's plan all along . . . when in reality he and John Kerry were gunning for war the whole time and have for years. 

A war financed by Islamic Theocratic Dictatorships no less.

[sonofdaxjones]

Vlad Putin, new leader of the free world is on track to surpass former leader of the free world Barrack Obama as world's largest arms dealer.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130911-russia-renew-offer-supply-300s-iran

[felix rex]

Pretty telling move by our leadership that we're no longer concerned with being the world's #1 supplier of warmongering equipment. Seems like a step in the right direction.

[8manpick]

People keep taking about positives as if they are negatives

[sonofdaxjones]

Pretty telling move by our leadership that we're no longer concerned with being the world's #1 supplier of warmongering equipment. Seems like a step in the right direction.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves, we're still sending billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere as well as trying to push the F-15 Silent Eagle (amongst many systems) on the Taiwanese, Koreans and Japanese.

[felix rex]

Obama: The president who moved us off the top spot in international arms sales.

Seems like a pretty solid accomplishment, one that should be welcomed by anti-warmongers and Obama-bot zombies alike. I'd say we all come out winners as Americans on this one.