Obama and the "Three Graces"

Victor Davis Hanson, the great summarizer, asks the question:

how did Obama, the archetype war critic, find himself bombing—in optional and preemptive fashion, and without congressional authority — an Arab Muslim oil-exporting country, and one that posed no immediate threat to American national security, despite being governed by a monster who, nevertheless, had been recently courted by Western intellectuals, academics, universities, and diplomats?

His answer is the best, most coherent, short summary of the crisis I have seen yet.

Read it here.