Confused

I seem to be getting a wee bit confused these days pertaining to that no-man's land called Syria. How did Syria manage to become the world's most despised nation anyway? But that's not what confuses me. What confuses me is the way the United Nations hasn't seemed to be able to locate any chemical weapons facilities in Syria when at the exact same frame of time the United States military can pinpoint their locations precisely for surgically accurate missile strikes. What, do Americans only speak English and nobody in the entire United Nations understands English? What gives?

And why hasn't anybody in the media or on the Internet asked that painfully obvious question?