SYRIA, A LOSS FOR THE WEST

"The Weakened West" is the title of this article from the Economist. 

Now every tyrant knows that a red line set by the leader of the free world is really just a threat to ask legislators how they feel about enforcing it. Dictators will be freer to maim and murder their own people, proliferators like North Korea less scared to proceed with spreading WMD, China and Russia ever more content to test their muscles in the vacuum left by the West.

From Sarah Palin (she is still around!):  I can see Putin's shoe print on Obama's behind from my house.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria defends the Obama administration seeing it as a "lucky break."  But even he admits it is just a small step.