With time comes greater understanding and better perspective.
Second, Obama's red line fiasco often overshadowed the good that actually happened in the weeks and months after Washington decided not to intervene. Under intense diplomatic pressure, Syria would eventually hand over its declared chemical weapons stockpiles to international monitors for destruction and sign onto the chemical weapons convention, which Damascus was loathe to do for decades. In a dealin September 2013, and later codified by the U.N.
Former President Barack Obama participates in conversation with Andreas Dracopoulos as part of the SNF Nostos Conference 2023, in Athens, Greece, on June 22, 2023.The agreement was a major accomplishment. Syria, which possessed the largest chemical weapons arsenal in the Middle East, was now under the watchful eye of the world's foremost chemical weapons watchdog.
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