This is a long article about our history in Syria, but at the end of it, Robert lays out why we are trying to overthrow Assad.
http://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-arabs-dont-want-us-in-syria-midea...
Pluto's comment is excellent especially the part about the kabuki theater of the Benghazi hearings. I too noticed that no one asked Hillary what was happening at the embassy the night of the attack, but of course the republicans knew what the CIA and the state department were doing.
We aren't even spending billions in Syria for our own self interests but so that Saudi Arabia and Qatar can build a pipeline.
The other reason for destroying so many countries in the Middle East is to make Israel the remaining superpower.
Funny how Israel hasn't sent any of its sons and daughters to fight and die like Americans have.
And of course Americans believe that our troops are defending our freedoms but don't know that our troops are fighting alongside Al Qaida. The same group that they fought against during the Iraq war. If I had lost a family member in that war and found that out, I'd be royalty pissed!
There are many good websites that have covered the Syrian war, but I like counterpunch and you can easily search their archives to find articles explaining the war.
Try to read Joe's evening blues.
He covers what is happening and after I read those articles, I hit that site's homepage and read more articles.
If you want more links to sites, let me know.

Syria: Moral Quicksand: Samantha Power’s Temper Tantrum

What stood out most during the verbal broadside unleashed by Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, at her Iranian, Syrian and Russian counterparts over the fighting in Aleppo, was her ability to do so with a straight face. It was testament to the ability of US exceptionalism to keep its proponents cocooned from reality.

“Aleppo will join the ranks of those events in world history that define modern evil, that stain our conscience decades later. Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and, now, Aleppo,” Power said, from the vantage point of a moral high ground resting on foundations of quicksand.

Rather conveniently, the US Ambassador neglected to add Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Libya to her list, countries ravaged and destroyed in service to US and Western imperialism. Or how about Gaza and Yemen, where Israel and Saudi Arabia, Washington’s closest Middle East, have engaged in the mass slaughter of civilians? Yes, there was no mention of that either by Ms Power.

When it comes to Aleppo’s suffering, the scenes of celebration by thousands of its citizens over their liberation refutes the attempt by Power and others in the West to paint the Syrian Arab Army, made up of soldiers from every sector of the country’s religious, ethnic, and cultural mosaic, as a latter day Waffen SS, an army of occupation executing women and children at random. At the same time, of course, Salafi-jihadist groups such as the Nusra Front (now Jabhat Fatah al-Sham) and Jaysh al Islam have been painted as the modern day equivalent of the French resistance or Partisans.

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This is not to allege that there was not a movement for reform in Syria back in 2011, inspired by an Arab Spring that had swept across the region demanding democratic and political change. And this is not to suggest that the Syrians who supported this movement did not have any legitimate grievances with their government. But there is a marked difference between reform and ruin, and it is the latter course upon which this movement embarked when it was taken over by Salafi-jihadists intent on the mass slaughter and extermination of the country’s minorities.

Samantha Power knows all this, of course; she knows it but chooses to ignore it, favoring instead moral tirades of the sort she unleashed at the UN against those who are fighting to save yet another Arab country from the fate of the sectarian abyss fashioned in Riyadh and supported by Washington as a lesser evil when compared to a secular Arab state that refuses to kowtow to its writ.

In the last analysis, being lectured to by a representative of Washington on human rights violations and war crimes is like being told to sit up straight by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.