U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the nation about the situation in Syria from the East Room at the White House in Washington (REUTERS/Evan Vucci).
Opinion
President Obama’s Confused Logic on Syria
September 10, 2013, Shibley Telhami
Shibley Telhami writes that, in his speech Tuesday night, the president focused narrowly on the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons, casting them only indirectly as threats to U.S. security, and bent over backwards to assure the American people that any actions he takes will be strictly limited. Telhami looks at nine examples of contradictions in the president's speech.