president. here is a president who urgently addresses the nation, on a pause that the nation doesn't want to do in the first place. this is almost unbelievable. and the fact that he puts so much weight on the russian proposal is a farce. the russians have said what they're trying to do is to get a guarantee that america will never strike syria. meaning russia wants the installation and the maintenance of the assad regime, which obama said had to go, to be a principal of any settlement. which will undo any attempt on the part of the west to ultimately dislodge the man who unleashed the weapons. so i don't see that there is a serious proposal. i think obama sees this as a way to negotiate, to pause, to draw it out. and after a couple of weeks, inspections negotiation, as if they will not be a vote in congress.