It really is the stuff of nightmares. Obama caught in a trap of his own making, and John McCain helping him to dig himself into an even bigger hole.
By getting a U.S. Senate committee to back Obama's punitive missile strike.
In return for an even bigger war:
It will be about a week before we know whether Obama will get to fire his missiles at Syria.
But what already painfully obvious is that just his threat to launch them is causing havoc in the ranks of his own supporters.
Because by now I think I've heard all of these arguments for or against.
Just from my own friends. And the one that scares me the most is this one: