No, Obama does not got this. No, he is not Brilliant. No, this was never his plan.

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33. Actually that doesn't seem to be the OP's point

I suppose if you're operating on a binary scale where a person can only be extremely brilliant or extremely stupid, sure. But nobody thinks like that.

This was not he plan put forth by the Obama administration. This is Vladimir Putin, jumping on something Kerry said off-handedly, Syria agreeing with the idea, and the Obama administration being caught by surprise.

It's not that Obama and Kerry are dumb men. They're not. it's that they're not the only smart guys involved here. Obama, Putin, Assad, Kings Abdullah and Abdullah, Netanyahu, Khamenei, all of these guys are bright dudes who are playing their own games and who will catch the other people involved by surprise. This time it was Obama's turn to go "wait, what?"

And if he decides to go with the idea, that's great, I'm happy that he makes that choice. But he didn't see it coming. if he had he wouldn't have spent all this time, energy, and political capital to drum up domestic support for a war with Syria.

What I wonder about are the DU posters who have been hoping to have some dead Syrians in the near future, who are very suddenly embracing a non-war solution and acting like they were behind it all along. Sorry motherfuckers, you don't get to accuse me of wanting to personally gas people myself if i don't support the president's call for war, and then get to act like you were in on it all along.