My take is that Zero received an ultimatum from the Russians that their AQ proxies were going to shut down the gunrunning operation to the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria by force and he'd better not lift a finger to stop it or face WWIII.
Zero caved.
It's just speculation, but it fits. Think of it as a Cuban missile crisis in reverse.
20 posted on 11/01/2012 10:41:02 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
(Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)