Q-Drop 1070 possible explanation:

>Explanandum

explanans.

>The ‘Tone’.

not sure, but primes me to think of phrases like "keep the tone civil"

Civil?

>WAR.

Civil WAR? where is civil war ongoing? Syria.

>April showers.

April showers bring May flowers.

Showers of what, on what?

Flowers where?

April Showers of missiles on Syria bring May flowers (in Syria?) of…?

Next 21 days will test this hypothesis.

Just my two cents.