Jackson Diehl joins the "do something!" brigade. Yglesias sighs:
[Diehl's] column is like the Platonic ideal of a DC foreign policy column. He’s really, really, really furious about Barack Obama for not doing “more” to block the Syrian government’s violent repression of anti-government protests and he goes on for some length about it all without mentioning a single efficacious step he’d like to see Obama take.
Well, duh. That's neoconservatism in a nutshell. Scream loudly and … well, not invade, but … well, a speech or something like that. Meanwhile, the EU does something:
[It] has listed 13 Syrian officials on the bloc's sanctions list, including a brother and a wealthy and influential cousin of Bashar al-Assad, the president, and intelligence chiefs. … The measures, asset freezes and travel bans, are part of a package of sanctions, including an arms embargo which went into effect on Tuesday, as part of EU efforts to try to force Syria to end violence against anti-government protesters.
The Dish 