Chip Bok's Bokbluster

The Obama/Kerry insistence on the insignificance of their proposed attack on Syria reached its logical absurd conclusion yesterday when Kerry described it as “unbelievably small”. What do you do with news that’s already a cartoon? You go to Animal House for “a really futile and stupid gesture”.

The side-splitting must have been too much for Putin. He pounced on Kerry’s “rhetorical point” that Assad could avoid attack by giving up his chemical weapons:

“He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week — turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting. But he isn’t about to do it, and it can’t be done.”

By six o’clock Obama was all over the news shows swapping his red line for a life line from Putin.

Unbelievably Small Update

Bret Stephens wants to know “when did the American way of war go from shock-and-awe to forewarn-and-irritate?”.