White House warns it will 'respond swiftly' if Syria uses chemical weapons again!
"Russia is sending a clear message to President Trump that he can't tell Assad to back off"
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I can't help but wonder-- is Trump having a "Barack Obama moment"?
The United States and its allies will respond "swiftly and appropriately" if Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President, uses chemical weapons again, the White House cautioned on Tuesday.
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Obama's 'Red Line' That Wasn't
In August of 2012, Barack Obama made a statement that Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons would constitute a “red line.” When Assad’s army killed more than 1,400 people with sarin gas one year later, the president initially believed that he would carry out a strike. Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg takes us inside the day that Obama broke with the Washington playbook with his last-minute decision not to bomb Syria. To read more about the president’s foreign policy legacy, read The Atlantic ’s April 2016 cover story, “ The Obama Doctrine .”