A former Obama administration official who worked on foreign policy said that the president is causing the U.S. to act as if it is “totally impotent” in the face of Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Syria. “The optics are that we’re backing off. It’s not like we can’t exert pressure on these guys, but we act like we’re totally impotent,” the former administration official said, according to Politico. Indeed, multiple current and former players in the Obama administration have expressed opposition to the president’s reluctance to respond to the Syrian civil war or Moscow’s military buildup there that has worked...
