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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
To be fair even some democrats are criticizing Obama today, when Assad's regime first used chemical gas on his people breaking the famous red line something should have been done, even a small show of force like taking out a military airport under stealth would have sent a message but doing nothing but bartering with a crazy man showed
incredible weakness. and now that the Russians are there it's now a new ball game.
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Obama likely didn't enforce the "Red Line" against Syria because it would have jeopardized the nuclear deal with Iran which was being negotiated at the time.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama...ia-iran-2016-8
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the Obama administration's determination to close the Iran nuclear deal is to blame for the failure to act on its own red line in Syria.
"When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement,"
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Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical-weapons attack wasn't 100% solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.
The Iran deal is thought to be the crowning foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration, and experts have speculated previously that his determination not to compromise the deal affected his policy on Syria.
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To be honest, I would make the same choice.