As John at Verum Serum puts it, this comes about four months too late. Why now, all of a sudden? Who knows – there’s never really been any rhyme or reason to Obama’s approach to foreign policy. Things are pretty grim over in North Korea too. But we won’t be hearing any calls for regime change there, will we?
Of course, Obama is off to Martha’s Vineyard later today so he could only be bothered to issue a written statement on the matter. He left it to a vaguely familiar-looking pant-suited U.S. diplomat to deliver the bad news to Assad: Step aside, or face garden-variety economic sanctions that should have been imposed a long time ago.
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