-——the impact of imminent bombing of Syria by the U.S. and the Western allies———
It would appear that Obama got cold feet and in a chickenshit manner, in a cold sweat, couldn’t summon the courage to pull the trigger.
Important in the sentence is the phrase western allies. Extensive words clearly include the allies in the planning and operations. All this is lost in the hysteria about AQ is coming, AQ is coming. One can surmise the allies are disgusted with an Obama that gets cold feet and backs out. The adults are in control operationally from Turkey and the AQ and MB hype is just that. Hype
The article never states who was gased and the motive or operational objective for making a gas attack. We know people are dead but don’t know who not the possible reason for the attack.
Yes we do know that. For Assad the reason would be to risk a retaliation against his military capability to demonstrate that the West would chicken out. That is an idiotic strategy for Assad since he had no difficulty punishing the rebels with conventional means and is on the verge of driving them out. However, if you want to believe like Kerry and Obama and those fops in Europe do, that it is Assad responsible, yeah, that's the reason -- there is no other.
For the rebels the reason is to get the US and NATO finally drawn into the Syrian civil war on their side. It became clear that unless WMD is used, no one will do anything, so they used it. That is their "possible reason".