Note
President Obama's foreign policy of engagement lies in tatters. Isolated as never before, his major address on Tuesday night was hopelessly incoherent. He told us that the touchstone for America's national security interest in Syria was 1,400 people who perished from chemical weapons, not 100,000 Syrians who have died from cruelty of all kinds. And then there was the specter of the real evil – the president stressing that not acting will "embolden Iran." Such a concern is a justification for targeting Iran, not Syria. But to paraphrase John Kerry, the president's 'unbelievably small' backbone won't carry that weight.