I certainly agree with your hope that there is not a new front ahead in the Middle East.
The Ambassador's letter was certainly thorough.  But I must admit something just doesn't smell right here.  With the UN report getting more and more fleshed out over time, with the French and Americans coming to the same point of view and cooperating on the Syrian issue (incredibly hard to believe, as jerome points out below), with the recent history of Syria supporting terror in the Mid East.  It's just a little hard to find them credible.

hopefully diplomacy and some UN led pressure can get us, the world that is, to the right place.