WAPO’S DAVID IGNATIUS: OBAMA’S WEIRD ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ ABOUT HIS OWN FAILED SYRIA POLICY: On today’s Morning Joe [Ignatius] called the president’s reaction “weird,” adding “he spoke almost like a man vindicated when a policy of his own administration had collapsed in failure. And he was, he took the line almost of, see, I told you so.”

Of course — successes are entirely the result of Mr. Obama’s singular brilliance. Mistakes illustrate the historic failure and systemic overreach of America itself.