Our very selective outrage over "moral obscenities"

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44. I didn't say Kerry personally cooked the intel and I'm sure he wouldn't describe Assad as a personal

friend; at this point, I'd say John is violently disaffected and disillusioned, as only someone who was once morally invested in seeing a peaceful outcome and had come to realize that Assad and his circle are devious and ruthless bastards.

Syria has been on the radar for some of us since long before March 2011. It's been on my list at least going back to my initial read of the 1997 PNAC manifesto, A Clean Break, and how prominently it features as regime change target along with Lebanon after Iraq and before Iran in that document. Some things take time, but some of us don't forget where these sorts of glorious moral crusades really come from and the level of cynicism that drives them to their carefully planned conclusions. We are seeing just another step along the way, tonight.