I believe Syria is a good example for "Give War a Chance", sadly. We in the west should stay out - other than offering humanitarian assistance we need to stear clear. We should not offer military assistance of any sort. The likelihood of blowback far exceeds the chance of our success in engineering a US freindly or even a a peaceful State.
The situation on the ground is always more complicated than most of us can imagine. For a good example, read Barry Rubin's Which Way for Syria? Listen to the Sermons. And heed his conclusions:
"Yes, a revolutionary Islamist Syria would be anti-Iranian but also anti-everyone else." and "To watch Western naives fool around with this in trying to socially engineer a new Syria is like watching chidren playing around with high explosives."
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