I changed my mind...instead of waiting for the historically documented pathetic snowflake come-back about how I just made shit up (because they are too lazy and are sheep led astray by fake news media), I decided to spoon-feed / educate another snowflake:
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Obama's Syria Bluff Has Been Called
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks on Syria at the State Department in Washington, DC, on August 26, 2013. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) By George Friedman, Founder and Chairman of Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm Images of multiple dead bodies emerged from Syria...www.forbes.com
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Assad Has Called Obama's Bluff - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com
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Barack Obamaâs presidency will be defined by his failure to face down Assad
The president’s ultimate indifference to chemical warfare led, directly and indirectly, to the trail of violence and suffering that reached as far as Europewww.theguardian.com
A chemical attack was used in Syria and innocents were killed. (At the time there were 2 stories, 1 that Al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people, and 2) rebels did and attempted to blame Al-Assad)....makes no difference to this story).
Obama puffed up his chest and publicly told Al-Assad that he / the US would invade and kick his ass if chemical weapons were used again - it was OBAMA'S RED LINE!
The thing about using 'Red Lines' in front of the whole world is that you damn-well better be able to back it up...or it will be humiliating, and you will be exposed as a liar and as being weak.
Sure enough, Al-Assad (backed by Russia) called Barry's bluff......
...and sure enough, Barry backed down in front of the entire world....to include terrorists and our enemies. Oh, Barry attempted to try to recover by publicly declaring that this 'RED LINE' of his was not JUST HIS, it was THE WORLD'S Red Line..... Yeah, that failed miserably as world leaders bailed on Barry like people packed into a Volkswagen Bug after someone cuts a monster f@rt, all making clear that it was NEVER 'their' Red Line.
Barry...and the US...was humiliated, and Barry had to live that one down....but he never forgot.
It is my opinion that it was the reason Barry committed a United Nations-defined INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIME (Invading a sovereign nation without the permission or request of the nation's leader or government) befofre he left office and left US troops in Syria to fight HIS war as he left the WH.
Did you actually read the whole Forbes piece?