I'M GLAD WE'VE NOTICED – AT 8:55 A.M. ET:  The agreement with Syria calling for it to give up its chemical weapons has started to collapse (shock!), and even our State Department is forced to notice.  From the Jerusalem Post: 

WASHINGTON – The US strongly condemned Syria for its failure to prepare and package the bulk of its chemical weapons arsenal for removal from the country, six days before a UN deadline requires its government to have shipped its entire stockpile to the port at Latakia.

In September, Syria agreed to forfeit its massive chemical weapons stockpile to be destroyed at sea under strict time constraints, under threat of military force from Washington.

But with a major deadline approaching, only 4 percent of those weapons have been delivered to Latakia, and only two cargo shipments have left the port, each carrying away roughly 15 tons of material. According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, tasked with facilitating the removal of Syria’s arms, the Syrian regime has stockpiled at least 1,300 tons of chemicals.

“We all know that the Syrian regime has the capability to move these weapons, since they have been moved multiple times in the conflict,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Thursday, adding that the US was “deeply concerned” about the delay. “This isn’t rocket science here. They’re dragging their feet.”

Psaki said US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry never removed the prospect of military action from the table after threatening Syria’s Bashar Assad with assault in August. But they are focused on enforcing the deal that resulted from that standoff, she said.

COMMENT:  This is what happens when you flash weakness.  In fact, the United States has effectively removed the prospect of military action.  It is in Obama's body language, the way he approaches every issue.  Appeasement, and more appeasement, and the weakening of American defense.

If you were the Syrian regime, would you be especially afraid of Barack Hussein Obama Jr.  I really don't think so, especially as you see your strongest ally, Iran, strengthened by the same Obama. 

This is what losing looks like.

January 31,  2014