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A Paragraph About Obama's Red Line

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Obama’s Red Line Obama’s red line has made the world more dangerous because countries were “testing” him or ignoring the line completely. The purpose of the red line was to tell other countries that chemical weapons were not okay. Other countries/terrorist groups didn’t like the statement and made threats of death to the United States. One of the ways that this has made the world worse off is that countries ended up using chemical weapons anyways. For example the United states said that we would bomb anyone who used chemical weapons. Syria decided to test what the U.S. claimed they would do and decided to use a small amount of chemical weapons on their own people so they could deny doing it. “He started with a small deniable use of chemical weapons”. Bashar al Assad didn’t want to be caught. Due to Obama making this “red line” countries disliked him and he was forced to retreat out of Syria, which in turn made ISIS stronger. “Another 100,000 non combatants have died” “ISIS grew stronger and swept into Iraq”. ISIS not only killed 100,000 people they displaced 9 million people. That is a lot of people that have been put into danger due to the “red line” that Obama proposed. A second example of people being in danger from ISIS due to the “red line” is “where …show more content…

An example of a country that ended its relationship with the United States is Egypt. Egypt has had a relationship with the U.S. for thirty years prior to the red line announcement. “Egypt said it will join Russia’s Eurasian Union”. Egypt opted to join the Russian Eurasian Union rather than have a relationship with the U.S. China is another country that was angry over the red line. “The Chinese have stepped up their cyber attacks”. The cyber attacks were specifically towards allies with the U.S. like Japan and Taiwan. Countries that rival with us are on the move to try and mess with us, and our allies our skeptical about our

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