The key problem facing President Obama on Syria is . . . President Obama. He has backed himself into a corner in which he is profoundly uncomfortable. Because he declared the use of chemical weapons a “red line,” and since Syria has now used them in an astonishingly brazen fashion, he must strike or appear weak at best and amoral at worst. And he surely will strike. But we also know the president has expressed little confidence in his public life or in the years preceding his entry into politics that large-scale US military action can be a profound force for good.
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