Barack Obama is constructing his own heroic narrative and is testing it out with members of the family that has created the greatest mythology in the history of American politics.  And he is staking his claim to courage on his utter failure to enforce his infamous "red line" on Syrian chemical weapons. Nolan D. McCaskill reports in Politico: Barack Obama defended his decision not to bomb Syria as president in an interview published Monday, casting his controversial decision as an act that "required the most political courage." Obama spoke with Jack Schlossberg last week before accepting a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award. Schlossberg, Kennedy's grandson and a member of the award committee, released a transcript of their conversation in a Medium post on Monday. Obama receives the Kennedy 'Profile in Courage" award Sending troops into harm's way was "the hardest issue that I dealt...(Read Full Post)