Never've liked the expression about 'crossing a red line." For instance, what do you mean by this even in a figurative sense? You will now take some rash course of action that was unthinkable until this very moment? What does this mean other than as a rhetorical stand-in for sturm und drang? Maybe it's because I'd never heard the expression before it was used, for years, in the screechiest of tones to demand an immediate U.S. invasion of Syria on the side of Al Qaeda. Because staged gas attacks "crossed a red line."
Never've liked the expression about 'crossing a red line." For instance, what do you mean by this even in a figurative sense? You will now take some rash course of action that was unthinkable until this very moment? What does this mean other than as a rhetorical stand-in for sturm und drang? Maybe it's because I'd never heard the expression before it was used, for years, in the screechiest of tones to demand an immediate U.S. invasion of Syria on the side of Al Qaeda. Because staged gas attacks "crossed a red line."
I get ya. I'm just saying that this is not normal and we're in a strange place where we shouldn't be.