Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama risks
getting stuck with a rap as toxic as an unpopular war or a
troubled economy: incompetence.
The president may escape collateral damage if the ambitious
deal reached Sept. 14 between the U.S. and Russia holds and
Syria relinquishes its chemical weapons. Despite the
conventional wisdom, Obama did a pretty good job last week of
threading the needle between the imperative to respond to the
gassing of civilians by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and
the overwhelming desire of Americans not to get bogged down in
another fight.
