Agreed Little Hawk, you're one of the few voices of sanity on this forum!

By the way I found it interesting to see Obama's speech makers twisting things.

Obama: "The Russian government has indicated a willingness to join with the international community in pushing Assad to give up his chemical weapons."

a) Note, the unspoken premise via "join with" that the 'International Community' doesn't actually already include Russia, to which anyone with an awareness of how significant Russia is in the world, would go 'Whhu'? In other words, the so-called 'International Community' that the US administration is so fond of invoking actually amounts to, well The US, and whoever else may currently support the military aims of, well The US.

b) Note how the Obama speechmakers have also neatly co-opted what was actually a *Russian-led initiative* to get Assad to surrender any stockpiles of chemical weapons he may hold, and suggest via referencing the implicitly US dominated 'International Community' that it was in fact a US-led initiative.

I thought it was a bit of a joke when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for 'doing nothing'. However reflecting on the US's incessant history of international military aggression, I decided that so long as Obama keeps on - or is forced to keep on - 'doing nothing', it actually represents a worthy award. I really, really hope he keeps on doing nothing. If he can just resist the psychotic US compulsion to wage war, and keeps on doing nothing it's worth a whole land-fill full of nobel peace prizes, and he will be remembered for it.