America Totally Discredited -- Paul Craig Roberts

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. I think the people he's surrounded himself with...

... are a huge part of the problem here. I hope he'll make some reassessments about his trusted advisory after this is over.

I agree that he's likely feeling uncertain just how to proceed now. The sensible out is simply to cite new evidence "raising doubts," (there's plenty of REAL evidence that could be used this way) and signal that military intervention has been "placed on hold." Then just wait for the media to move on to something else. Still pretty clumsy but much better than launching any kind of attack, even a limited one.