Telegraph today.
(William Hague, UK Foreign Sec) told Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News the continued political and trade isolation of Syria was the second best option. What was needed was a united way forward, he said.

Asked whether the Government had ruled out military intervention, Mr Hague said: "I think we don't know how things are going to develop. Syria is, as I said in the last couple of weeks, on the edge of a collapse or of a sectarian civil war so I don't think we can rule anything out.

"But it is not so much like Libya last year, where of course we had a successful intervention to save lives.

"It is looking more like Bosnia in the 1990s, being on the edge of a sectarian conflict in which neighbouring villages are attacking and killing each other so I don't think we can rule anything out.

(Note to Jim, Bosnia had no oil. Syria has.
That answers your "rhetorical" question.)