[Common Sense 101]

Gaffe? Try “stupidity” or “incompetence” and you’ll be edging your way closer to the truth.

[DaveA37]

Well, no matter what he said or how he said it, both Kerry and odumbo will claim it was in their plans all along.

“Never let a good gaffe go to waste”.

[Louis Foxwell]

Of course the real stupidity is that this gang that cannot shoot straight believes their own idiocy. This will result in Assad becoming firmly ensconced in power with the full support of the US military charged with the responsibility of caring for the WMD cache.
That these weapons are indestructible as a practical reality and can be made in a soup kitchen are irrelevancies to clown alley. They have dodged another bullet shot directly into their own foot through some fancy footwork indeed.