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“I’m not itching for military action… and if there are good ideas that are worth pursuing, then I’m going to be open to them,” he told one reporter who asked if he was seeking alternatives to a missile strike.

He's already backing down - good, because I think doing anything in Syria would be a huge mistake. But bad for the US in the long term as our pres__ent has shown himself to the world as a nothing with his legislature having no confidence in him. Our enemies see this and scheme and plot.

My reoccurring thought is that Obama's defeat that's coming in the house is one he's sown. Why? 1) His polarizing partisanship that goes back to his diatribes against Bush. 2) His persistent defeatism when our soldiers were in Iraq and as they've been in Afghanistan. 3) His disdain for any constraints, constitutional or legislative. 4) His arrogance of refusing to explain what it is that is to be done in Syria. 5) His contempt for all the people in the US that actually make the country work. 6) His mercurial flip flopping that is unbecoming of any leader at even the lowest level.

Having said all of that I do think Syria is a huge problem. Assad, in my opinion, will fall. He cannot even buy food anymore and his agricultural sector is not working. There are two million external refugees, and millions more internal to Syria. The FSA was supplanted by al Qaeda when Obama dithered and dallied about helping them. The stocks of chemical weapons he has could fall into al Qaeda's hands, and no one wants to take the risk to secure them. This is a nightmare, most of which Obama has voted "Present" as an approach towards resolving.

Reference my comment on Assad not being able to feed his people, see this link.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/african-and-mideast-business/syria-tenders-fail-raising-doubt-over-assad-ability-to-buy-food/article14071179/