"ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels: Reports"

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4. One of the problems that Obama is dealing with is that we still excoriate the

Western democracies for refusing to help the Jews during the Holocaust and the Rwandans during that genocidal episode. Even Boko Haram's atrocities have provoked calls from some quarters for direct Western intervention.

We don't want to return to war in the Mideast, but we also can't bear the knowledge that vicious groups are terrorizing and murdering innocent victims. Rock and hard place. Devil and deep blue sea.

No matter what course he follows, Obama is going to enrage a lot of people. Plus he has to deal with extraordinary political pressure from all sides to do something, but with no good options for what he could do--the war lobby; right wingers who want to paint Dems as weak on defense and international policy; Dems up for election who fear being painted as weak on international or defense policy.

Some people want him to do something, but don't want him to do any of the things that he can do.

He is being burned by the fires that CheneyBush deliberately started.