If one assumes Obama's red line on WMD use was drawn in a considered way [yes, it's pretty obvious it wasn't but since Obama is pretending it was we might as well play along] - if we assume the red line's legitimacy, then what follows logically is that if the red line is crossed, force will be used to punish and to dissuade further use - the presumption of force is obvious and yet Obama on several occasions has said he hasn't made a decision yet on the use of force, even though Kerry has stated the use of WMDs by Assad is a certainty - in short, Obama saying he hasn't made his mind up yet about the use of force amounts to an admission by him that the drawing of the red line was an ill-considered mistake by an inept president - and yet the press still acts as if the president is making sense when he talks.
A question: if the red line was a grotesque example of executive bumbling, we need to ask ourselves if it had never been drawn would we be considering an intervention regardless? If not, how unwise would it be to intervene simply because Obama is a fool? Can one make a convincing argument that in order to serve America's best interests repairing the damage done by Obama's foolishness is necessary? Of course, the further related complication here is that with the matter now moving to congress many lawmakers are going to be put in the very difficult position of signing off on the use of force in order to preserve America's reputation but in doing so having to put the authority of this use of force into the hands of an executive that is manifestly incompetent when it comes to matters of foreign policy and has dumped this choice on congress for no other reason than to spread around blame for what is to come.
[and there's a further abuse of logic at work here - you have an American president who clearly distrusts, dislikes or possibly secretly feels outright contempt for American power - that's how the leftist intellectual elite that spawned Obama thinks and that is the obvious conclusion to be drawn from Obama's actions as president - so you have an executive who clearly is uncomfortable with American power threatening the evil doers of the world with the harsh retribution of that august power should they misbehave - it's absurd, it makes no sense, yet again the press acts as if it does. Liberal thought, given it's abstract idealism, is in essence incoherent and Obama is a near perfect manifestation of that reality]
