I've been talking about America's plans to destroy Syria at least since 2010
I used to hang out with a guy who said his brother worked as Apache Forward Air Command in Iraq in 2002. He showed me a photo of him there and there was a board with a target list. Syria was on that list even then (with Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, etc), I guess as a motivational joke or whatever. So I'm sure it is not really anything new. The US will always be scheming of ways to go after who isn't in the club.