The criminal cartel (Council for Foreign Relations, NeoCons) that has taken control of the United States, supported by their gangster pals in Israel, London, Berlin, etc. etc., have decided to end all viable Nation-States in the Middle-East.
Any Nation that opposes Israel or refuses to follow US dictates is to be reduced to 'failed state status'. Like Iraq and Libya, Syria is earmarked for perpetual poverty, squalour, violence, mayhem and abject misery, under the boot of the Western controlled warlords in ISIL and the like.
The Syrian people, with the support of Russia, have, so far, managed to withstand the onslaught of the Western trained, armed and funded 'terrorist' thugs. Should al-Assad be toppled, Iran is next in line for the 'treatment'.

Despite the disgusting propaganda of the vast bulk of the MSM, and the frantic efforts of the 'useful idiots' and idiotic trolls. Most of the people in Britain and America do not support the criminal actions, and intentions, of the cretins in power.