Obama’s Goldilocks Strike

The civil war in Syria is lurching into a new and more ominous phase.  The Obama administration evidently hopes to emulate Goldilocks in seeking to calibrate sea-launched cruise missile strikes against the Syrian government as punishment for the alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people:  Not too much, not too little, but just right.

That seems unlikely, as the Assad regime’s friends are warning of dire repercussions from any such strike.  For example, Russia has said “catastrophe” would ensue for the region and Iran warned yesterday that Israel will suffer retaliation.

Whether these threats materialize or not, Team Obama’s systematic hollowing out of our nation’s military is severely limiting our capacity to deal with whatever blow-back may result.  Worse yet, that perceived weakness may actually invite a wider war.