to stop the Jihad/Sharia/terrorism/Burkha crowd once and for all.

Assad is clearly winning and there is no need for him to use chemical weapons -- so the main suspects are Turkey (ask Seymour Hersh), Israel and Saudi Arabia who want to give more exposure to their fledgling terrorists and get them some Western help. I doubt that would happen because no one wants Libya-2.

I'm just waiting for them to pin this on Assad.

Samantha Power learned a lot from Cheney and Wolfowitz.

this small bit of news: rebels have now been seen in multiple locations with US TOW anti-tank missiles today. I have no doubt this is a direct response to the happenings in Ukraine.
A couple of weeks ago, when Putin was done with Crimea and beginning to seriously threaten east Ukraine, Assad had a very bad day: rebels took a bunch of ground and his cousin was killed. This was a direct warning to Putin of what would happen if he continued with his actions in Ukraine.
As it has now become clear that Putin is going to make a concerted attempt at continuing his invasion of Ukraine, the US has very ostentatiously supplied the rebels with better weapons. It may also be a response to this attack, which is just one in a continuing series by the Syrian gov't since Aug 21. They've been doing them small, and are now attempting to re-ratchet back up to Aug 21 levels.
Nothing can be done about Putin taking whatever he wants from Ukraine; they are clearly in the Russian sphere of influence. But Syria isn't. If Putin takes Ukraine, Assad is going down.

This doesn't exactly make me jump for joy, but this is how the game is played, and Putin knows it. If he moves on Ukraine, Assad is toast. It's that simple.

to Assad.

Unfortunately for Putin, they have a border with NATO: Turkey. It's not even beyond the realm of possibility that they close off the Bosphorus to Russia. Turkey's already not happy with prospects for the Crimean Tatars, so they already have made noises in this direction.
Putin is playing with way more than he can handle. Obama has already made it clear what he will do. Merkel is now getting seriously into the sanctions arena, and unlike the US, Germany does a lot of business with Russia. If they jump in with both feet, he's going to be facing some serious economic problems.
If you read that linked article, what you see is that Russia was being treated as a normal country in which to do business. Actually, they are a capitalist's dream, with a flat income tax, and not a lot of regulation. Non-energy related FDI was beginning to take off, finally, in 2013.
All of that is now changing, and if he makes good on his threats to Ukraine's mainland, the hit to the Russian economy will be large. I personally don't see it happening for this reason. Putin's too greedy. He'll push as far as he can without raising the costs too much, but that will be it. This will be a low-level, long term game of attrition, rather than the lightning strikes he pulled in Georgia and Crimea.
As long as that's the case, Assad will be allowed to stay. If it changes, he'll be gone.

Putin's already supplying them. The US has been holding back, not him.
Less so now. If he moves in force across the Ukraine border, gloves come off. He can resupply to his heart's content. Or try. Won't do him or Assad any good.

of wahabi assholes rather than a well-trained Syrian army and Hizbollah fighters.

I also noticed some glee of the cold war variety that if he gets Ukraine and makes people miserable, we'll make sure that millions of women in Syria will be oppressed by burkhas and genital mutilations to satisfy the Sunni/Wahabi thirst.

Amazing.