Here's the sad reality. wehateporn is partially correct, it's propaganda from the western countries about Assad wanting to use chemical weapons. True, he has the capabilities and he might be using it. But hearing my great USA saying it leaves me with deja vu all over again when they ramped up the rhetoric like how we claimed there was WMD in Iraq. Smells the same. No pun intended
It's a precursor for a foreign invasion into Syria and it's going to happen, there is little doubt about it.
But the US and the allies who want to invade Syria is going to find out it's not going to be an easy invasion. Libya had jack all in terms of military strength and even then they had difficulty and it took longer than expected to out gaddafi. gaddafi was a greedy dictator who was more concerned with wealth for himself and he didn't build a good military defense. And yet, he was able to fight a prolonged war which speaks of his good military tactics despite having a very lax military power. It's like a guy who brings a knife to a gun fight. A loss was expected but he kept things interesting being a crafty guy until his demise.
Syria and Assad on the other hand is one bad dude who knew this day would inevitably come and thus he prepared for it. He stockpiled tons of high grade military equipment, radar defenses which he bought from Russia and China, not to mention in the black market. Fighting him will be a true test for the western allies, he will not go down easily and with his vaunted defense and latest technological weapons he will be employing. There will be heavy casualities for the allies. This may, I say MAY be another Vietnam for the US if they are not careful. Assad is nothing like gaddafi and if the US and it's allies think they will roll into Syria and take over it like they did Iraq or Libya, they are in for a rude awakening.