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Obama took Syria decision alone

AFP, Washington
After staring deep into his political soul over Syria, Barack Obama blinked.
Stunning his advisors, his opponents, and the rest of the world, Obama chose to rein in his own power, and asked Congress to authorize a military intervention he had been set to wage alone.
Senior aides say Obama took the momentous decision alone on Friday evening, then explained it in a heart to heart with his chief of staff Denis McDonough.
Before then, the spin had been that Obama had the legal and moral right to strike President Bashar al-Assad's regime to punish a horrific chemical weapons attack.
But Obama was out on a limb - potentially defying public opinion and the United Nations, deserted by America's best friend, Britain.
By stopping at the brink, Obama will face claims he is weak, does not make good on his threats and presides over a feckless foreign policy.
But acting alone would have repudiated one of the central principles that got him elected - the idea that imperial presidents should not plunge into foreign quagmires with their authority unchecked.
In 2007, Obama, a former constitutional law professor criticized ex-president George W Bush for endless, unaccountable wars. "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation," he told The Boston Globe.
But six years on, Obama was on the cusp of ordering cruise missile strikes in Syria, while bypassing Congress, on the basis of a fragile case that last week's attack posed an immediate threat to US security.
At the heart of Obama's decision was his presidential legacy, aides said.
The president, who brought US troops home from Iraq, and is doing likewise on Afghanistan, wants to leave office having led his country away from permanent war.
The president, who maintains he did have the constitutional authority to act alone, has effectively called the bluff of critics who demanded he give Congress the chance to debate Syria.
Obama did not seek authorization for the operation which ousted Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - and faced a firestorm of criticism from Republicans over the subsequent attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, alone.
The president appears to have calculated that while he could go to war without a UN mandate - to do so without the endorsement of Congress and defying war weary public opinion, would be a political step too far.
Senior aides said however, that one factor easing Obama's decision had been that he was assured by General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that delaying action would not reduce its effectiveness.