Seems that Assad had to learn what Bill's wife learned.....not to underestimate Donald Trump.
"Others have speculated about why the Assad government would engage in such a
provocative act at a time when he appears to be winning the six-year civil war.
One reason, said Jihad Yazigi, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, is that
the attack and the publicity it has generated will humiliate the international community and, once again, highlight its fecklessness over continuing civilian deaths.
"Assad wants the West to beg him to stop attacking civilians," Yazigi told Middle East Eye."
ANALYSIS: With gas attack, Assad wants world to 'beg him' to stop
Trump isn't the feckless empty suit that Obama was....
"Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama
2 SEPTEMBER 2013
The strength of Syria, the support of its allies, and the fear of a powerful retaliation to any attack, scared Americans. This is why Barack Obama, described as "weak" by the Israeli media, "hesitant and confused", as called by the Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Moqdad, announced Saturday night, the postponement of aggression against Syria. Abandoned by his closest allies, unable to form an international coalition, Obama..."
Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama, by Wassim Raad