President Obama with his foreign policy team in the Oval Office on July 13, 2015. In his zeal to defend his decisionmaking in Syria, though, Obama in an interview with New York magazine has added a new wrinkle to his account of the incident. [The conflicts in Libya and Syria tested Obama’s core values]The reality, though, was far messier and shows why the 2013 incident remains one of the hotly debated moments of Obama's presidency. Obama's critics (and even some allies) have blasted him for threatening to punish Assad with airstrikes and not following through on his "red-line" pledge. "Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community," an exasperated Kerry told reporters in September 2013.

Source: Washington Post October 04, 2016 21:59 UTC