This is the real world, as opposed to the academic little bubble world he and his yes men and sycophants live in/
If he intended to attack Syria, he should have done it immediately when support was high and Assad and his allies, especially Russia, were caught off guard and unprepared.
By the time this dithering idiot actually acts, Assad will have protected his assets with an American attack in mind, the Russians all have moved all of their assets to counter ours and the Russians may upgrade Assad's air defense systems.
The chances of the US forces accomplishing the goal of destroying Assad's capabilities has went down astronomically, the risk to American military assets taking part in any military action has increased a hundred fold and we have a much larger Russian presence which could trigger a much larger and more serious war with Russia if Obama screws up any military action.
Obama has mishandled this so badly it's hard to see how he could have done worse up to this point and he has done immeasurable and lasting damage to the United States as a consequence of his actions.
The scary thing is that, while he could not do worse up until now, he can much much worse going forward. In fact he has almost unlimited capability to screw up and turn the Syrian event into a geopolitical nightmare up to and including blowing this up to a serious regional or world war.
Good post. Obama simply has no idea what the consequences of his little adventure will be. Quite frankly, this is a golden opportunity for Putin to exploit: a confrontation wherein the U.S. has no real international support. He’s holding the cards on this one.