Motus Mentis

I was all set to put up a link to today’s NightWatch analysis, but noticed that the indefatigable JK beat me to it in a comment on our previous post. Here it is again, nevertheless.

I haven’t selected any excerpts to reproduce here — I urge all of you to follow the link and read the whole thing. In brief: there is a great deal more uncertainty about all of this than you might have been led to believe. Open-source reports (see here, for example) cast significant doubt on the story we’ve been hearing from Mr. Kerry et al.

The dog that I don’t hear barking in all of this is Samantha Power, who — unless water now flows uphill, the planets have reversed their courses, the Mets are headed for the World Series, and the Republican Party is a doughty garrison of rock-ribbed conservatives — is working the President’s ear like Grima Wormtongue on this one. There has hardly been any mention of her in the press, but let there be no doubt that she sees this chance to hit Syria the way Michael Moore might look at a lasagna.