Having already helped to put Edward Snowden on the Nobel Peace Prize list, the current administration has made Vladimir Putin a contender.

Someone needs to take John Kerry aside and explain that it is the Secretary of Defense who should be arguing for war, not the Secretary of State. They can also explain that there wouldn’t be ‘boots on the ground’ in a nuclear exchange but it is still war.

If the US had proposed international control of Syria’s chemical weapons at the UN Security Council and been turned down, then it could have moved on to discussing war, but it dismissed any attempt at diplomacy and went directly to war.

I have already read people attempting to spin this as more ’11 dimensional chess’ on the part of Zero, but Kerry’s attempt to back off his comment about international control of chemical weapons makes it obvious that it was just thrown out as an impossible choice.

Everyone in the Middle East remembers what happened to Saddam Hussein when he complied with the demand to prove he had no WMDs – the US told the weapons inspectors to leave when they weren’t proving the existence of the weapons, and Iraq was invaded. The US has a credibility problem when it comes to inspection teams, not Syria.

Zero is still pushing for a Use of Force resolution from Congress to be used if Assad doesn’t cooperate, but Congress and the public are in no mood for that sort of thing. John Kerry has sounded too much like Colin Powell for people to trust the government.

Position: 15.4N 28.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [315°] near 7 mph [11 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph [110 kph].
Wind Gusts: 80 mph [120 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 995 mb ↑.

Currently about 270 miles [ 435 km] West of the Cape Verde Islands.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 32.0N 65.0W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North [355°] near 8 mph [13 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Wind Gusts: 70 mph [110 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1004 mb.

Currently about 25 miles [ 40 km] South-Southwest of Bermuda.

The storm found favorable conditions and has spun back up. It is stronger than initially thought.

Bermuda is getting pummeled by the storm.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Bermuda.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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