The BBC is reporting this morning that Bashar al-Assad has accepted a Russian plan to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control. According to the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Muallem, this would "remove the grounds for American aggression."
Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is saying that his country plans to introduce a resolution in the UN Security Council that, if approved, would authorize the destruction of Assad's weapons, which were banned by a Geneva Convention in 1925. So it is possible that President Obama's proposed military strike against the Assad regime could be, as they say in Foggy Bottom, "overtaken by events," though that would not make the prospect of a Congressional vote any less anxiety-producing for the those who will have to respond for the record when the roll is called.
The Washington Post's George F. Will has weighed in with a column entitled "Syria Presents a Constitutional Moment," which argues in favor of Congressional involvement in principle, though not for Congressional approval in this case. Glenn Fellows will notice that the unusually well-read (albeit unusually abrasive) Will cites George Orwell and James Madison along the way.
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