It wouldn’t take much TV video of cities falling , mass executions, and captured troops being marched down the road by the thousands, hundreds of thousands of refugees, and desperate American evacuations, to put Obama into LBJ declining to run territory.
Of course by law he can’t anyway, but wouldn’t it be rather symbolic if he revealed that he didn’t know that? Or had changed his mind? Of course, there’s always President of Assyria.
I believe the 22nd has already placed him into that territory securely.