When you’re right, you’re right. Or, Obama the Schmuck.

Conservatives are pointing to the last week or so, during which the still current Syria affair had its beginning but not its end, as exemplary of a signal Obama blunder and his inability to measure or decisively influence congressional or popular opinion.

Liberals are claiming Obama made a threat that worked, or even - and wholly without evidence or corroboration or even plausibility - that he coordinated the whole thing with Putin.

The conservatives are surely right, on that narrow point.

But they wildly exaggerate how far this sort of weakness and this sort of blundering are bad things in a president, and talk no end of entirely partisan nonsense about the alleged need for Republican leadership in the White House.

Pshaw.