Syria is looking more and more like a deep dark hole US President Barack Obama is tumbling into.

The “red line” he warned the Assad regime not to cross a year ago has become a hollow catchphrase, a gesture that is noble yet devoid of substance. The French have a word for it: beau geste.

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