[Seaplaner]

One suspects that blame-artist-in-chief Obama has been told that a military strike with no military objectives or goals would have no good consequence, and might be jolting a metaphorical mideast hornets' nest (consider Krauthammer's "amateur hour" assessment, here)...

...so...

He is kicking it to congress to...

BLAME SHARE!

My guess, and welcome to it.

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[Netz]

Obama never had much credibility or respect in the world. They gave him the Nobel Peace Prize for some unknown reason and he has proven to be an armature buffoon. Now the whole world knows he is a stuffed shirt, a nothing, a man afraid of his own shadow and this makes the world much more dangerous than it was under Bush.

[expat2]

Yes, tho’ I would put it slightly differently: “I was going to punish them for crossing the red line, but Congress won’t give me permission, so it’s not me that’s chickening out.”