Heading into the final months of his last term, a cautious Obama picks his battles — and his adversaries — carefully. He embellishes his legacy by bragging about backing down from that Syrian red line against chemical weapons he set in 2013. "I'm very proud of this moment," he told Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic. "The fact that I was able to pull back from the immediate pressures and think through in my own mind what was in America's interest, not only with respect to Syria but also with respect to our democracy, was as tough a decision as I've made — and I believe ultimately it was the right decision to make."