This should be a tripwire for strikes against the regime. It won't and never will be. This administration doesn't know when to fight and when to keep quiet. It would not be an issue (strike or not) if the president had not so publically "drawn a red line. We could have ignored the whole thing.
Having made a big deal of it, we either put up or shut up. This administration has chosen to shut up. still another lose of Face in the middle east and around the world.