When is a red line more of a grey area?

[Taem]

This really upsets me. It makes the president look like a bumbling fool - sorry to say - that lacks the fervor of his supposed convictions. Of course the reality is that after what happened in Egypt/Libya, America does not want to waste it's time in another war in which we have a country we helped just turn around and burn our flag immediately after. If I had my druthers, I'd say let them fight their own wars as we did in our country, but because of the statement Obama made about crossing the "red line," I feel we are obligated to help now with the burden of proof exposed! If we do not react after that big hoopla of a press conference, then what are we saying to the rest of the world? If Obama does not act, then I would question his leadership abilities because his inaction in this matter after what he swore to us, Syria, and the world is unforgivable, and other countries will exploit this "weak" president, which to me is completely intolerable! I sincerely hope this administration is only biding its time until a solution presents itself and then jumps at the first sign of action and takes it because if they do not, I fear this will spell poor relations with... well with the rest of the world! And if this administration waits too long, the situation will be just as bad! Don't get me wrong, America is in an extremely unfavorable position here; if we help the rebels and they turn out to be Al Qaeda (which is a very real possibility), then we just made the situation WORSE... but IMO doing nothing after what was said is unforgivable and would just show how pathetic this administration really is at foreign affairs, which to me is the far worse option.

EDIT: And that reminds me, with the situation that occurred in Korea, we all know Kim was posturing, however if that had happened on the Bushs' watch, Regan, possibly Carter's or Clintons - i.e. Korea loading nukes to it's missile facilities on the beaches and pointing them toward us - these other presidents would have sent war ships out to the Korea to say, "are you seriously going to fuck with us?" What did the Obama administration do? Offered aid. I'm all for peace, but this president is becoming the world's pushover. What's next? China demands we give up Hawaii and we we decide to give them partial ownership rights? <-sarcasm> N.Korea is a fly on the wall compared to other great nations and if N.Korea was allowed to point missiles at our great nation without any kind of display of military might from us, then again, what does this say to other nations? You don't hear about this in the American media, but I'm sure there's talk in other countries about the pushover American president. And the handling of the US Consulate attack in Libya? Sorry, I'm ranting. I voted for Obama because I wanted to see change; I just wish he had more of an iron fist!