Did you hear Obama say tonight that we would be taking out Assad? I believe I did.

[frazzled]

4. No, you did not

He said we would not be allying with Assad to fight ISIL (but rather will ally with the moderate opposition to Assad).


(What he did not say, but is true, is that this is because Assad is a murdering dictator whose devastation of his country (200,000 dead and several million refugees over the past year and a half) is largely the reason ISIL was able to rush into Syria in the chaos and recruit and gain territory; and he has benefitted from the ISIL terror.)

Before tonight, commentators from the region's greatest fear is that the US would somehow ally with Assad in this fight; we will not.