Assad, Putin Slow Roll The Obama Administration; Play Rope-A-Dope; Unrealistic Demands From A Community Organizer; No Wonder Vladimir Appears More Credible

I honestly don't remember such consistent dithering by any administration on any issue. I thought the Keystone XL was an outlier. Hardly.

"Lurch" notes:

“There are timelines in here and it’s an ambitious goal,” Kerry said at a press conference with Lavrov in the hotel where negotiations took place.

It looks like simooms are blowing away that red line in the sand. 

The earliest the chemical weapons will be destroyed is mid-2014.

Do you remember how those "turn in your guns" in Los Angeles and other big American cities work out? Yup. Folks turn in all their ancient, non-working guns for $20 or more, but they keep their working guns. The same thing is going to happen in Syria. A year from now (maybe that soon), the AP and CBS will have a big article with photos and videos of Syrian chemical weapons going up in flames. Yup. All the chemical weapons that have expired. Meanwhile, countries that make chemical weapons for export will continue; after all, with all those expired canisters going up in flames, the inventory needs to be replenished.

And so it goes.

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But this is the bigger story.

The US gives Syria one week to come up with itemized list of chemical weapons. In a war zone.

Our country, the United States of America, can't even get out a weekly unemployment claims number that is correct. What a joke. 

I can't make this stuff up.