Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Russian President Vladimir Putin loom over the about-to-open congressional debate on whether President Obama ought to receive the backing of Congress for a strike against Syria’s president and Iran’s puppet Bashar Assad.

How you understand the Hezbollah-Syria-Iran-Russia axis drives your point of view on the vote. On my radio show Friday, Charles Krauthammer declared that “I think if you have to choose the evils here, it is clear that the rebels are far the lesser of two evils than the Shiite-Iranian-Hezbollah-Assad axis, with Russia behind it.”