Red line

There are many headaches facing a president and one of the most exasperating is the fact that everything you say is recorded for later playback. On several occasions President Obama stated that if Syria every used chemical weapons that would be a “red line” and if they crossed that line there would be serious consequences. In recent weeks France, England and Israel have all concluded that the chemical gas Sarin was used in Syria. Yesterday our government said the following: The White House said Thursday that military forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad probably used chemical weapons on a “small scale,” reigniting the debate over what role the U.S. should play in trying to topple the regime. I believe the words probably and small are designed to change the red line to a sort of pink. The country, once again, finds itself in an awkward position because we waited too long to get involve. We now face a country adrift in a full scale civil war with over 70,000 of its citizens dead and another 2 million forced out of the country and living in refugee camps.