The Daily 202: Trump gets schooled in Syria on how much his words matter
Trump gets schooled in Syria on how much his words matter Trump vows a 'big price to pay' following apparent chemical attack in Syria BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Those who don’t learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. That’s what the United States keeps doing in Syria. In 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a speech implying that the Korean Peninsula was outside of the core defense perimeter of the United States. Though not intended, this sent a signal that America was abandoning South Korea. That helped provoke a war we’re still dealing with the fallout from today. Barack Obama made one of the gravest blunders of his presidency when he declared in 2012 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against civilians would cross a “red line” and bring “enormous consequences.” When hundreds were killed by a gas attack the next year, he planned to launch missiles