The Obama administration has retreated as fast as it can before the first shot is even fired at Syria. At first there was:
The fierce urgency of bombing now,
in a campaign that would be "brief and limited,"
but which SecState John Kerry now says will be "unbelievably small."
Kerry said the Americans were planning an "unbelievably small" attack on Syria. "We will be able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted, short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for Syria's civil war. That is exactly what we are talking about doing – unbelievably small, limited kind of effort."
But wait! There's more! When I first saw the next item I thought it had been excerpted from
The Onion or maybe the
Borowitz Report, but no, this is
straight reporting:
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The administration's Syria strategy
is so adorable! |
USA Today describes the administration's strategy: "A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he'll still be able to eat Cheerios."
It is almost impossible to assess what this administration is trying to do while doing two things at the same time: make sense of it all and keep a straight face while doing so.
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| "Kerry said what?" |
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| "John? John? Throw me a bone here!" |
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