Abstract
This chapter traces the types of ideas which led President Barack Obama to repress principled arguments for intervention in Syria. Obama's aversion to foreign intervention re-emerged after the US intervention in Libya. Despite initial suggestions of a ‘red line’ on the use of chemical weapons and having his ‘finger on the trigger’, he repressed principled calls for intervention in Syria after large-scale chemical weapons attacks occurred in the suburbs of the Ghouta region in 2013. The attacks killed over 1,400 people, many of whom were non-combatants. The chapter argues that Obama framed the crisis in legalistic terms, regarding the international taboo on the use of chemical weapons rather than as a humanitarian atrocity, given the lack of a ‘Benghazi to be saved’.
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