Is the US at war with Syria? Over what, precisely? President Assad is the popularly elected leader of Syria. To use the term "regime" indicates that the news source is sheer propaganda. Syria realizes that the outside mercenaries are just that, outside mercenaries, and does not want to suffer the same fate as Iraq, Egypt and Libya. Who might the hidden hand be behind these disasters? Which country in that region wants to see its neighbors reduced to squabbling factions?