Barack Obama

It looks better. But still we have to wait and see. Neither Putin nor Assad can be trusted.

Oh, and did you know that there's a weird conspiracy theory going around saying that somehow PBO is hiring, training, funding and arming Al Qaeda, fronted by Saudi Arabia (whatever the hell that means) to do something having to do with Syria? (I have no clue what.) And that he's a PNAC Zionist.

I think it is important to say right here in the BOG that President Obama is not hiring, funding, training and arming AQ, fronted by Saudi Arabia to do anything with Syria or anywhere else. President Obama is not Al Qaeda. He is not a Muslim. He is not a Zionist. He is not PNAC. There. I said it.

President Obama uses complex diplomacy in the interests of the United States and its allies. The threat of the use of force is part of international negotiations now, just as it always has been. President Obama has used it to get Syria to stop using chemical weapons on its own civilian population when the UN could not act. We shall see how effective it will be with Congress folding far too soon IMHO.