AWAITING TONIGHT'S OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS ON SYRIA BY PRESIDENT OBAMA.............

American President Barack Obama addresses the Nation and the World from the Oval Office on the White House tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific Time on the Chemical Weapons use travesty in Syria by President Assad on September 21, reported to have killed 1,400 of his people including 400 children by that act.  What President Obama will say about the strategic military reaction his Administration will make particularly in the light of yesterday's indication of willingness by Russia to monitor the gathering up of the Syrian chemical weapons to be turned over and destroyed by verification of the international community is of key interest and concern.  With the American public war weary after eleven years of strife in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, opposing even a limited,  no boots on the ground, measured strike against Assad's diatribe by a margin of nearly two to one indicated by today's NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll showing 58% Opposed; 33% In Favor; and 74% of the respondents saying we should Focus on America and only 22% supporting the continued promotion of Democracy aboard.  It seems to me that for now President Obama is in a no win position politically.  The overwhelming majority of Americans do not welcome a military response to the Syrian Civil War crisis.  Yet a lack of effective action on his part is seen by a vociferous number of others as failure and weakness.  A sensitive, sensible, principled, presidential, act of governance is what is required above and beyond politics and popularity.  What the President of the United States announces tonight and carries out in coming days has to be a legitimately acceptable and constitutional action, in concurrence with the national security and well being of our country and the betterment of the global international community we are at the center of as the beacon of hope, freedom, equal opportunity, justice, and peace, for all humankind.............Fr.  Troy David