re: Is anyone else laughing about this "red line" media creation?

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We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”

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OK. So a red line changes calculus and equations (wtf?)

But saying that any more threats would bring whatever biblical Truman ripoff the world has never seen blah blah?

I think you're correct in that they aren't alike. One was a vague, strange math metaphor, the other a hyperbolic, over-dramatic yarn.

Changing calculus as opposed to reigning down hell fire and fury the likes of something this planet has never seen before.