The HillOriginally published under the title "Trump Learned from Obama's Mistakes and Took Action."
When Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched the 21stcentury's second deadliest chemical weapons attack on Tuesday, President Trump must have paged through President Obama's playbook in responding to this century's deadliest chemical attack less than four years earlier and resolved to do exactly the opposite. It turns out he's onto something.
When pro-regime Syrian forces gassed the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta in 2013, a year after President Obama warned Assad that use of chemical weapons would cross a red line, the Obama administration spent three weeks preparing to do something.