I still can’t understand what the US government is trying to achieve in Syria. If i have it right - we are trying to replace the only government they have know, the secular, minority Alawite Assad, to be replaced with Sunni/ISIS chaos.
Because of such stupidity by the likes of Obama and McCain, the only conclusion one can come to is Syria is indeed being punished because of oil politics - we can not have a Syrian/Russian veto on Arab/Saudi oil and gas pipelines to the Mediterranean.
It's not that you can't understand it. You, like just about everyone else, can't accept it. Call it normalcy bias if you like.
The normal state of the moslem world seems to be chaotic. The US, under the sway of its communist, moslem president, has entered this chaos. The result is more chaos.
Chaos is, seemingly, the desired result. Consider: Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ferguson, Baltimore. Chaos reigns. Policy aims have been achieved. What is next is anybody's guess.