Obama Agrees to Staged UN Debate on Russian Ploy to Pretend Solution Arranged in Order to Permit Obama to Save Political Face

And the Court praised the wisdom and courage of the King.

So Obama agreed to the obvious face-saving political ploy we all knew he'd agree to.

The New Republic is a huge fan of the plan.

This, in other words, is no light at the end of the tunnel. This, to borrow a phrase from a Congressional staffer at his wits' end, "is an unmitigated clusterfuck."

I always wanted to start my morning with honey-coated Unmitigated Clusterfucks but all I had was Kaboom.

Oh, and now Russia's like, "Yeah. About that."

Russia is not keen at this stage for a binding U.N. Security Council resolution that would provide a framework to control Syria’s chemical weapons’ stocks, France’s foreign minister said after talks with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday.

“As I understood, the Russians at this stage were not necessarily enthusiastic, and I’m using euphemism, to put all that into the framework of a U.N. binding resolution,” Laurent Fabius told French lawmakers after a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

So, if I understand this right, Russia's position is that the fake initiative to permit Obama to save political face will not have any real teeth, eh?

It sounds like they want to make sure everyone understands this is just a fig leaf and that they won.

OBAMA: I'll give you whatever you want, Putin. Just allow me to keep... My Illusions.

PUTIN: Nah bro. They go too.

And as if to underline his point, Syria began (conventional) airstrikes against the rebels again.

[J]ets returned to the sky to bomb rebel positions in Damascus for the first time since the West threatened force.

posted by Ace at 12:54 PM

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