Chessmaster's got a point...

You cannot simultaneously prepare for war and plan for peace. *~Einstein.

Late Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Obama administration was pursuing a dual-track effort to authorize military strikes even as it sought to avoid them by eliminating Syria’s chemical arsenal, an approach he said could not work.

The disarmament plans “will work out only if the U.S. and those who support it on this issue pledge to renounce the use of force, because it is difficult to make any country, Syria or any other country in the world, unilaterally disarm if there is military action against it under consideration,” Putin told Russia Today.

Let's work with them, motivated by the memories of dead gassed childen, and drop the military fallback incentive.

Plenty of time for WWIII,
for those convinced it will only come to that, should we not go gangbusters into Syria now already...