On this occasion we should be grateful that Obama failed.

[DirkGently]

80. I do not think U.S. threats are the sole power in the world, no.

That is the foolish premise of PNAC and neocons that Democrats have rightly claimed to reject.

Keep in mind this threat we are making is illegal under international law. Sure, some would like to see it, but there's always someone who wants more weight on one side of a war or another.

I heard non-Assad backing Syrians on NPR this morning who didn't want a U.S. strike, because they believe it just escalate the chaos and destruction.

Who are we, exactly, to tell everyone, in and out of Syria, that things will be just as we want them, or Tomahawks will rain from the sky?

From where do we get the assumption we can even accomplish such a goal through such means?

If Assad doesn't do what we want, we're going to ... what? Mess up his military so somehow just chems are hard to use, but not so much that Al Quaeda-backed rebels win the war?

The notion that America's choices are to make war or do nothing or encourage the use of chemical weapons is a fraud. We are not the country that must always use military force to remake the world as we see fit; other countries' voices be damned.

We are not neocons.