Krauthammer: "One Of The Most Odd Presidential Speeches Ever Delivered"
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: That's what makes this one of the most odd presidential speeches ever delivered. Here is a president who urgently addresses the nation, on all channels, to call for a pause, assuming that the nation does not want to do [anything] in the first place. This is almost unbelievable. And the fact that he puts so much weight on the Russian proposal, which is a farce.
The Russians have said what they're trying to do is to get a guarantee that America will never strike Syria, meaning Russia wants the installation and the maintenance of the Assad regime, which Obama said had to go, to be a principal of any settlement, which will undo any attempt on the part of the West to ultimately dislodge the man who unleashed the weapons.
So, I don't see that there is a serious proposal. I think Obama sees this as a way to negotiate, to pause, to draw it out. And after a couple of weeks, inspections negotiation, as if there will not be a vote in Congress. There will not be a strike and we will not have the removal of weapons out of Syria.
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