Source: Spiegel
There are few foreign policy mistakes as grave as this one: A president publicly draws a red line, telling his opponent he can go this far and no further without consequences. But when that line is crossed, he does nothing.
This has been the scenario with United States President Barack Obama, who pledged to react militarily if chemical weapons were used in Syria. But when the British, the French and Obama’s own intelligence agency determined “with varying degrees of certainty” that the nerve gas Sarin has been used near Damascus and Aleppo, he backpedale.
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