For those who are interested the Russians are today jamming US drones over Syria.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...gin#newcomment
This article states that the USS Harry Truman is heading to the Arabian Gulf.
This website states that the Harry Truman is in Norfolk, and other carriers available are the Abraham Lincoln, George Bush and Gerald Ford also in Norfolk, the John C. Stennis off the coast of California, the Ronald Reagan in Japan, the Carl Vinson somewhere in the Pacific and the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the South China Sea.
http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html
So it will take a week for any carrier to get the Middle East unless Gonavy is been fed deliberately misleading information.
So if they are going to strike Assad immediately it will be through TLAM's or USAF airstrikes.