Eli Lake, Columnist

Thank Trump for Enforcing Obama's 'Red Line' in Syria

This is not enough to restore the world order once sustained by U.S. deterrence. But it's a start.

April 7, 2017 at 5:53 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

You've got to draw the red line somewhere.
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Samantha Power should send a thank-you note to Donald Trump. Power made her reputation as the author of "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide." It persuasively argued that the U.S. has a special responsibility to protect potential victims of genocide.

Barack Obama liked the book so much, he made Power his foreign policy tutor when he was still a senator. He brought her to his White House after he won the presidency and made her his ambassador to the United Nations in his second term.