[Navy Patriot]

The rebel force indicated for defense is quite small, and recently suffered significant losses, so a defensive or support airstrike may never be executed.

This may be a trial balloon for US air support of selected Muslim groups in the future.

Assad has some reasonably modern anti aircraft capabilities, and an air campaign against his forces may not be a cakewalk with Iran in a better position now to reinforce Assad.

Pushing ever closer to major hostilities in the ME.

[BlackVeil]

I agree with every word of your post.

This is an alarming development. The people of the US are not in favor of intervention in Syria, and I wish their representatives would speak up for them, against Obama and his reckless push to war.