By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
I spent the better part of Tuesday trying to figure out just exactly what President Obama would say during his address to the nation that night. His speechwriters were probably mainlining caffeine, I figured, because the whole narrative had been turned inside out in a day. On Monday morning, the speech was going to be about convincing the American people that bombing kids because of dead kids is the way to go.
To call this run of events “incoherent” is to savagely insult the whole concept of incoherence. It was a mess, a jumble, all of a piece with the whole garbled thing to that point, but when Russia jumped up and endorsed the idea, followed by Syria itself, everyone in the Obama administration finally took a deep breath, stepped back, and said, “OK, yeah, that might actually work.”