Obama and Syria

President Obama deserves credit for his handling of the Syria problem, at least so far. By holding his fire until the right time and then using the threat of American military power to move Putin and Russia to put pressure on Syria to give up the chemical weapons, he is promoting American interests at no cost to us. Our enemies know that he does not rattle the saber frivolously, but when he is pushed to act, he is ready to unleash American power. He means what he says. He said he would get Bin Laden and he did, something the Republicans were not able to do despite draining our economy, exposing the limits of our military, and weakening our strategic position in the attempt. Now on the news, we see that the leader of Iran wants to talk to us because the economic pressure we have put on his country is working. We should also give credit to Senator Mc Cain for playing the bad cop in good cop bad cop stance that helps President Obama in dealing with Putin. Putin is now in the position of siding with a corrupt frightened Syrian government that probably won't survive. Obama has to keep up the pressure to make sure that the Syrian government loses its ability to use chemical weapons again. He will do it.