Obama has no interest in helping Sunni Muslims while at the same time he's been bending over backwards to accommodate the Shi'ites in Iran. Assad is supported by Iran.
I suspect the U.S. is waging this military campaign without any regard for what Obama wants to do. The @ssholes in Washington pushing to topple Assad are the same "neo-cons" from the Bush train wreck who are now supporting Hillary Clinton. This is a GOPe-Clinton deal, and this was probably why Clinton was orchestrating U.S. foreign policy through her Clinton Foundation computer network instead of the U.S. State Department.
While that statement is correct, these "@ssholes" would be nowhere near the Pentagon, military or any part of the US Government if they had not already been hand picked by Obama himself, don't fool yourself. Obama and the DemoRats for war have already assembled the Praetorian Military Command structure.
We will have war if and when Obama pulls the trigger.