Peggy Noonan, as she so often does, makes sense of the lack of
strategery that President Obama is exhibiting with respect to Syria. About President Obama's address tonight:
All this, if it is roughly correct, is going to make the president’s
speech tonight quite remarkable. It will be a White House address in
which a president argues for an endeavor he is abandoning. It will be a
president appealing for public support for an action he intends not to
take.
We’ve never had a presidential speech like that!
...
Then get ready for the spin job of all spin jobs. It’s already begun:
the White House is beginning to repeat that a diplomatic solution only
came because the president threatened force. That is going to be
followed by something that will grate on Republicans, conservatives, and
foreign-policy journalists and professionals. But many Democrats will
find it sweet, and some in the political press will go for it, if for no
other reason than it’s a new story line.
Twelve years after 9/11, one year after Benghazi, and five years into a presidency, we may have the most inept foreign policy, well, since Jimmy Carter. They know nothing. They have learned nothing.
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