They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a "big event of grave concern" but stressed on Friday he was in no rush to embroil Americans in a costly new war.
As opponents of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
braved the frontlines around Damascus to smuggle tissue samples to U.N. inspectors from victims of Wednesday's mass poisoning, Obama brushed over an interviewer's reminder that he once called chemical weapons a "red line" that could trigger U.S. action.
His caution contrasted with calls for action from NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
allies, including La Belle France, Britannia and Turkey, where leaders saw little doubt Assad's forces had staged pre-dawn missile strikes that rebels say killed between 500 and well over 1,000 people.
But two years into a civil war that has divided the Middle East along sectarian lines, a split between Western governments and Russia once again illustrated the international deadlock that has thwarted outside efforts to halt the killing.
While the West accused Assad of a cover-up by preventing the U.N. team from visiting the scene, Moscow said the rebels were impeding an investigation.