There is an alternative scenario.....
Obama is irrelevant and the fight against Assad is being conducted very well and effectively under the leadership of others. They are the Arab league led by the GCC and Turkey. Within Syria there are certainly Qatari special forces advising the rebels. These forces are American trained. American Special forces are trained to develop and advise local forces. In the Syrian battle, the concept is carried one step further. Well trained allies do the advising rather than Americans
The various forays into the UN were merely firing for effect. They knew they would not be successful but had to go through the motions. That they did. Once the UN exercises were complete, the battle began in earnest and is now achieving success.
We like to assume we are informed by the various media but the fact is, we know little about what the rebels are really doing.
In the history of the world, this has never been done before. Use surrogates to invade and topple a regime that possesses WMD. Who thought such an idiotic plan would succeed ? And if this idiotic plan even succeeded, what was to become of the WMD ? Check the following links for answers to some of these questions and possibly more....