Yep, almost as well played as Cameron, ie not very. So that's France on their own now then. France.
They've already said they'll only go as part of a coalition so no chance of the Frogs steaming into Assad on their own.
The incredible thing is that an off the cuff, unguarded remark by Kerry at a press conference was then jumped on by the Russians as a means to disrupt US planning, and now Obama has actually started running with it.
If nothing else it tells you that the US has no actual policy on Syria and are literally making it up as they go along. Given that this is one of the most dangerous situations in foreign policy terms since the end of the cold war (if not the most dangerous), that's an illuminating and incredibly worrying revelation.
It's in keeping with form though. When US forces took Baghdad, the commanders on the ground asked for instructions (what to do next)...there weren't any. THERE WAS NO PLAN.