He's referring the government shutdown of course.
Isn't that exactly what the USA is doing in negotiations with Syria. Talking about how we are going to bomb the shit out of them. Positioning aircraft carriers in the area. Obama sure has a short memory.
Haha, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline of the post.
Isn't that the standard MO? US foreign policy 101?
Heck even the bloody seal screams it... olive branches in one talon... a bunch of arrows in the other?
Gotta love the irony there.

...not to mention your position on the matter given your choice of username.

How anyone can possibly take Obama and the left seriously is beyond me. I'm not even close to joking.
Well China is taking Obama very seriously, ...as is Russia.
China just sent a bunch of warships to meet up with the Russian warships off the coast of Syria.