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Derek Chollet: Why Obama got it right on the Syria ‘red line’
“I don’t think any of us should regret the fact that we got 1,300 tons of chemical weapons out of Syria.”
President Obama and the infamous “red line” he drew on chemical weapons use by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad are Exhibit A in what detractors call Obama’s feckless foreign policy and American weakness; but to Derek Chollet, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and former special assistant to President Obama and senior director for strategic planning of the National Security Council staff, the opposite is true ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog..._term=.4df11ca70ca5&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1
Derek Chollet, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and author of “The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World.” (Courtesy of the German Marshall Fund)
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#redline
Derek Chollet: Why Obama got it right on the Syria ‘red line’
“I don’t think any of us should regret the fact that we got 1,300 tons of chemical weapons out of Syria.”
President Obama and the infamous “red line” he drew on chemical weapons use by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad are Exhibit A in what detractors call Obama’s feckless foreign policy and American weakness; but to Derek Chollet, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and former special assistant to President Obama and senior director for strategic planning of the National Security Council staff, the opposite is true ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog..._term=.4df11ca70ca5&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

Derek Chollet, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and author of “The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World.” (Courtesy of the German Marshall Fund)
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