hezbollah may retaliate against western targets .
it looks as if we ’ll be firing tomahawk cruise missiles at syria ?
if credibility were the cause , washington need do no more than start dismantling the potemkin village it has made of the principles it tediously mouths .
obama reportedly rejected a proposal from hillary clinton and david petraeus to arm rebels in syria has failed , and it ’s time to try a tougher approach .
” this is an obscenity as great as the one washington purports to answer .
depending how you cut the cake , the looming bombardment follows onslaughts on sudan , afghanistan , iraq , libya and mali , as well as a string of murderous drone assaults on yemen , somalia and pakistan .
the u.s. long ago squandered what credibility it may once have enjoyed or desired in the mideast .
maybe the awful pictures from ghouta are telling him the same thing ; not getting anyone outside white house meeting rooms , or at the other end of a secure phone line , to put his or her name down might be natural , even instinctive , but it is not what the moment demands .