Joke?

From the Guardian:

The Pentagon is drawing up contingency plans for intervention in Syria that include military action, as the Obama administration casts around for a more effective strategy to stop the regime in Damascus carrying out violence its own people.

Because violence practiced against other people, such as Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans, Somalis, Yemenis, etc. is OK, especially when practiced by the US, so killing thousands in Syria and Iran is also A-OK.

Manufacturing a civil war and intervening on 'humanitarian' grounds, rather than the old Bush line of 'defeating terrorism', is the Obama tactic for manipulating the press and public. Judging by the resulting lockstep to war in the media today, it has to be considered a success.