The president of the United States takes
to the airwaves to urgently persuade the nation to pause before doing something
it has no desire to do in the first place.
Strange. And
it gets stranger still. That “strike Syria, maybe” speech
begins with a heart-rending account of children consigned to a terrible death
by a monster dropping poison gas. It proceeds to explain why such behavior must
be punished. It culminates with the argument that the proper response — the
most effective way to uphold fundamental norms, indeed human decency — is a
flea bite: something “limited,” “targeted” or, as so memorably described by Secretary of State John Kerry, “unbelievably small.”
The mind reels, but there’s more. We must
respond — but not yet. This “Munich moment” (Kerry again) demands first a pause to find
accommodation with that very same toxin-wielding monster, by way of
negotiations with his equally cynical, often shirtless, Kremlin patron bearing
promises.....To Read More....
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