The following link is to an excellent article by the Foreign Policy Research Institute that in a nutshell says that Syria and the Russian's are playing us for dupes.
The premise of the argument is that we will likely capitulate rather than push the Syrian regime over the edge and bring it to its end. The consequences of that are such that the author of the article argues that rather than go down in defeat the Syrian's would likely employ chemical weapons on a mass scale against the rebels and that the current political moves are just a gambit to buy time.
While I don't agree with everything the author says, I think it has some valid points.
http://www.fpri.org/articles/2013/09/beware-syrians-bearing-gifts
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