Syria: Barack Obama's lack of action
has had predicted consequences
' "Bashar Assad crossed your line!" they yelled through a microphone, straining to be heard in the Oval Office a few hundred yards away. "There is only one solution! Revolution! Revolution!'
I don't entirely agree with Peter Foster's assessment of the military options, but from the paragraph before, "It was his usual rhetorical trick – framing any call to act or lead as a demand to wave a magic wand that he does not have,", it is a very astute assessment of where the American presidency has got to on Syria and how it got there.