I think more to the point, this feels like a ‘duh.’ The U.S. was against Assad, has people training the rebels and has some of the best intelligence in the region. It would be a bigger story if the U.S. just sat back and did nothing and it happened anyway.
Here’s the Telegraph article in the screenshot, and here’s an archived version of the same page.
The Telegraph has quite an overt right-wing bias, which might not matter much for this subject, but is worth bearing in mind.
I think more to the point, this feels like a ‘duh.’ The U.S. was against Assad, has people training the rebels and has some of the best intelligence in the region. It would be a bigger story if the U.S. just sat back and did nothing and it happened anyway.