<p>The recent gas attack in Syria is a painful example of how Obama&rsquo;s approach to foreign policy was downright stupid.</p>
<p>In 2012, Obama announced that the use of chemical weapons would be his &ldquo;red line.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>In 2013, Assad&rsquo;s forces gassed 1,400 civilians. Instead of retaliating immediately (like Trump did last week), he asked Congress for approval. The attack was never launched. ;</p>
<p>Obama then signed an agreement with Russia and Syria that aimed to rid the Assad regime of all chemical weapons. In 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said that Syria had coughed up &ldquo;100 percent&rdquo; of its chemical agents. ;</p>
<p>This statement was proved false last week when more than 80 civilians perished in a chemical gas attack in northern Syria. Like the nuclear deal with Iran (JCPOA), there was no hope of the agreement with Syria ever panning out like Obama had naively hoped.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We always knew we had not gotten everything, that the Syrians had not been fully forthcoming in their declaration,&rdquo; admits Tony Blinken, a national security adviser under Obama.  ;</p>
<p>The failure of the 2013 agreement is a serious bow to Obama&#8217;s legacy, as it was his only defense for failing to launch an attack after Syria crossed the so-called &#8220;red line.&#8221; ;</p>
<p>&#8220;The defense was that he got all the CW out, and now that defense is shown to be plain false&hellip; If Obama administration officials knew that at the time, they were deliberately misstating the facts. I think Obama will never live this down, nor should he,&rdquo; said Elliott Abrams, a national security adviser under President George W Bush. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The lesson I would draw from that experience is that when dealing with mass killing by unconventional or conventional means, deterrence is more effective than disarmament,&rdquo; said Tom Malinowski, former assistant secretary of state for human rights. ;</p>
<p>Ann-Marie Slaughter, a national security adviser under Obama, praised Trump&rsquo;s decision to punish the Assad regime for its crimes, comparing it to &ldquo;years of useless handwringing in the face of hideous atrocities.&rdquo;  ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;For me, this tragedy underscores the dangers of trying to do deals with dictators without a comprehensive, invasive, and permanent inspection regime,&rdquo; said Michael McFaul, Obama-era ambassador to Russia. &ldquo;It also shows the limits of doing deals with Putin. Surely, the Russians must have known about these CW.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Robert Einhorn of Obama&rsquo;s State Department agrees the ;2013 agreement was a failure. &ldquo;If the Syrian government carried out the attack and the agent was sarin, then clearly the 2013 agreement didn&rsquo;t succeed in its objective of eliminating Bashar&rsquo;s CW. Either he didn&rsquo;t declare all his CW and kept some hidden in reserve, or he illegally produced some sarin after his stock was eliminated &ndash; most likely the former.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Sarin is a &#8220;Schedule 1&#8221; substance. It is a colorless, odorless, extremely potent nerve gas ;that causes suffocation. Sarin is considered a weapon of mass destruction, and its production was outlawed in 1997. ;</p>
<p>While many Obama officials have admitted the deal was a failure, some continue to argue that removing 1,300 tons of CW was better than nothing &#8211; even if Assad ended up keeping some. &ldquo;Imagine what Syria would look like without that deal,&rdquo; said Blinken. ;</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note:</strong> Why would you make a deal with a dictator who has already shown he is willing to kill his own people? ;</p>
<p>This is just one example of how Obama&rsquo;s bad ideas are coming to fruition. I wonder how many more of Obama&#8217;s deals will have to be cleaned up like this&#8230; ;</p>