TOM FRIEDMAN BEGINS TO WONDER IF OBAMA KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING:

But sitting here also makes you wonder if Obama hasn’t gotten so obsessed with defending his hand’s-off approach to Syria that he underestimates both the dangers of his passivity and the opportunity for U.S. power to tilt this region our way — without having to invade anywhere. Initially, I thought Obama made the right call on Syria. But today the millions of refugees driven out of Syria — plus the economic migrants now flooding out of Africa through Libya after the utterly botched Obama-NATO operation there — is destabilizing the European Union.

“Utterly botched” is putting it mildly.

UPDATE: Friedman link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!