Red Line (US)
Author: Warrick, Joby
ISBN: 9780525564812
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No. of Pages, 346
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Shelf: Non-Fiction Books / Humanities & Biography / Middle Eastern History
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In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross "a red line." Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hundreds of civilians, and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war in the Middle East. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria's chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out.
