Last I heard yesterday, even Obama was saying “limited, narrow” attack.
Maybe he’ll work out a side deal with the Russians that will let him back down gracefully. With all of the warning he’s given Assad, a few bombs in the desert will make him look tough and principled, but not do any damage.
He’s only talking about a “limited,, narrow attack” because he knows that’s the only way he can get the war started. Then, when that inevitably fails and Assad gives him the rigid digit, he’ll say we have to “support the troops” and go in all the way, just as he planned and wanted from the get go. The part of Kerry’s speech where he denounced Assad s a monster almost as bad as Hitler, without using Hitler’s name, was a dead giveaway as to where the Mahdi intends to take us.