As the world watches the largest city in Syria destroyed and totals up hundreds of thousands of deaths in that country, Barack Obama and his toadies are desperate.  They know that his empty threat, the “red line” over use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, gave a green light to Russia to increase its support of Assad, gaining a precious naval base in the Mediterranean and thereby altering the balance of power in Middle East waters.  And unleashed even more war on Syrians. As his presidency winds down, President Obama fears that his legacy will include responsibility for not preventing genocide.  His own U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, made her career on the basis of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide, A Problem from Hell, which was very critical of U.S. inaction in the face of Rwandan genocide.  Yet she did not resign in protest over her boss’s failure to act in Syria.  In fact, by staying in office, she became an...(Read Full Post)