PR Prediction
I think governments say things like this when they know they’re about to make strategic military moves.
I don’t mean to be cynical, but it’s getting late in an election year and I think these kinds of statements, true or not, are meant to gain a moral footing with the common folk for military intervention.
I think there will be NATO air strikes come September, and it’ll be USA led, unless Asad leaves between now and then.