Of course, making us look ridiculous and weak doesn’t appear to matter to dear Leader…
Via Politico:
Journalists emerging from a closed-door briefing at the White House Friday afternoon were informed that President Barack Obama won’t insist that a U.N. resolution governing Syria’s surrender of chemical weapons include a threat of military force if President Bashar Assad doesn’t follow through.
Reports sourced to “senior administration officials” began emerging moments after the journalists were seen coming out of the White House session.
“Obama will not insist on UN threat of force to ensure that Syria lives up to CW deal but will seek other consequences, officials said,” New York Times reporter Peter Baker said on Twitter. CNN and NBC carried similar reports, with the Los Angeles Times attributing the news specifically to “a background briefing.”
According to the reporters, Obama aides did say that Obama would retain the right to consider military action even if such language isn’t in the U.N. agreement.