Obama painted himself into a box. It is the job of the state department to get the other guys to paint themselves into a box. This was a failure of the state department and the executive branch. Obama should have acted sooner and the state department should have informed him with the CIA that Assad was not to be threatened by the likes of the man child in chief.
There is not real good way out for Obama. The only hope he has is for Congress to do as Parliment did in England and bail out Barry.