Obama’s brain cracks under the stress

Syria: Russia will stand by Assad over any US strikes, warns Putin

Says the Telegraph,

Mr. Obama, meanwhile, compared the Syrian crisis to World War II, likening his country’s debate over intervention to the eventual American decision to support Britain against Nazi Germany.

Right.

Just like.

The story quotes O thus,

The US president admitted he faces a tough battle to win Congressional approval for intervention, but insisted he will stay the course.

"I expected this. This is hard, and I was under no illusions when I embarked on this path. But I think it's the right thing to do. I think it's good for our democracy.”

He added: "I'm not drawing an analogy to World War II other than to say that when London was getting bombed, it was profoundly unpopular, both in Congress and around the country to help the British. Doesn't mean it wasn't the right thing to do."

And yet, it wasn’t.

And yet, it’s so irrelevant to the present case.

Cameron yelling the moral necessity of intervention and urging others to support American action when he is already committed to doing nothing because parliament told him to stay out of it is more than a bit rich.

And then there is Putin drawing his own red lines.

Ending the summit, Mr Putin said that world opinion was firmly against US-led intervention, and warned that Russia would take the Syrian side in the event of conflict.

“Will we help Syria? We will,” he said. “We are already helping, we send arms.”

He added: “We cooperate in the economics sphere, we hope to expand our cooperation in the humanitarian sphere, which includes sending humanitarian aid to support those people - the civilians - who have found themselves in a very dire situation in this country.”

Russia has been a long-time supplier of weapons to Syria, including a state-of-the-art air-defence system that would threaten even US warplanes attempting to attack.

In recent weeks, the Russian navy has also sent three warships to the Mediterranean off Syria.

Russian reports suggest a fourth vessel, carrying a “special cargo”, is now on the way to the area.

Do I recall Europe blowing itself to smithereens over an Austrian Archduke at the beginning of the 20^th Century?

I sure do.

No one thought so small an affront could have such vast consequences, that summer.

No one thought the ruling classes of Europe could possibly be that irresponsible.

Did we and Europe and Russia get through 50 years of cold war without going at it only to find ourselves dragged into another real war over Syria?

Syria?

We all still have nukes, you know.

Something to think about.