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On Syria, Obama’s Inner Clinton Emerges

The Commander-in-Chief did not have sex with that red line, Miss Chemical Weapons: “I didn’t set a red line,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference here in Stockholm. “The world set a red line.” He added, “My credibility’s not on the line. The international community’s credibility’s on the line. And America and Congress’s credibility’s […]

The Commander-in-Chief did not have sex with that red line, Miss Chemical Weapons:

“I didn’t set a red line,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference here in Stockholm. “The world set a red line.”

He added, “My credibility’s not on the line. The international community’s credibility’s on the line. And America and Congress’s credibility’s on the line.”

Let’s see … about one year ago, the president said the following words, in the English language, in public, where people could hear him:

“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus.  That would change my equation.”

Unless Michael Jackson and various charity-minded warblers were correct in the 1980s, the president was pretty clearly talking about his administration. Maybe Michael Jackson is making him stretch the truth like this.

And no, Mr. President, this actually is your credibility on the line. If the “international community” cares so much about maintaining its credibility, why is it that France is the only country that wants anything to do with our plan? Nous sommes le monde, nous sommes les enfants…

This administration’s foreign policy credibility sinks with each passing hour.

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