Obama's Blurry Red Line

The FactCheck.org piece details the ambiguous promise by Barack Obama on what would instigate United States involvement in the Syrian conflict. FactCheck.org claims that the President said in August of last year that the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict would be the red line that warranted military intervention in the Syrian conflict. As of right now, chemical weapons were used in Syria and Obama has yet to order military intervention. The argument used by the author was that this displayed a blurry red line when it came to Obama's decision to intervene in Syria. Obama's defense was that the red line of chemical weapons was instead set by the international community as opposed to by himself. The fact the Obama promised military intervention when chemical weapons were used, and has yet to intervene in Syria shows ambiguous standards for what warrants military intervention in Syria.