I for one, cannot wait until we get oil refineries up and running so protecting our crude oil assets over there become null. That's all it really revolves around over there, nothing more. We want democracy to flourish over there so resources become obtainable much easier. It's just assinine though, to assume that Syria won't revert back to an infidel hating dictatorship within two years of Assad being overthrown if it comes to fruition. Besides that, I think it would be much more efficient to send in PMC's like Blackwater (Now Academi), Triple Canopy and Aegis to overthrow Assads regime instead of directly arming the same militants that will turn against us, not to mention it's much more economical, more bang for your buck. If your gonna tie a nations name to one side of a civil war we have no business in and send support to backstabbers, you might as well it do it correctly and in utmost preventative fashion.
But I digress, it makes much more sense for my tax dollars to go to arming the same people that might very well get me recalled back to service in the next few years just to be killed by the same weapon I bought for them. I find the irony in this to be very egregious.