Barack Obama, John Kerry and Joe Biden last decade scolded the Bush administration for disregarding the United Nations Security Council. But up until Vladimir Putin’s offer to remove Syria’s chemical weapons, Team Obama was ready to disregard the Security Council, which it attacked as feckless.

Go back to the Bush-era debates over confirming conservative hawk John Bolton to various foreign policy posts, and you’ll find Kerry, Biden and Obama preaching deference to the United Nations.