"How Trump’s mixed signals risk global war"
To continue Obama's policy of back doors and fence sitting, would only give  Assad more time to annihilate thousands of more civilians .  The response by the American government was calculated to send a message, no more 'red lines' from muslim friendly former presidents any more.
 Global war scaremongering,  only in the minds of those pro-islamic lecturers vent on weakening the West resolve to defeat terrorism.