WSJ plays the retribution card – against the Administration’s new plan

Even if Assad gives up his chemical weapons, he escapes unpunished for using them.

If you bought the Obama/Kerry line that the world, the US, or somebody has a duty to blow something up in Syria and kill a few thousand Syrians to punish Assad for a choice he may not personally have made, anyway – and certainly those to be killed did not make – , to use chemical weapons then the Russian disarmament plan is a good thing but nevertheless leaves that duty unfulfilled.

And that’s annoying, says the WSJ.

But their writers in this very piece undermine the idea there is a morally significant difference between blowing rebels up with bombs and gassing them, anyway.

And the whole article betrays the real frustration of the Journal is not that Assad will go unpunished but that he will continue to successfully resist overthrown by the rebels.

That is what really sticks in their craw.

These are not the conservatives who fear another victory for Sunni Islamism and the ideological kin of al-Qaeda.

Their hatred is greater for the Shiite Hezbollah who send rockets now and again into Israel from the safe haven of Syria.