Interesting perspective on what is going on in Syria. The US like all great empires before it has become drunk on its own power, Its foreign policy serves the interests of the wealthy elite, not the American people. The problem is it has the power to do immeasurable damage as it implodes. It has crushed a few small nations that threatened its economic might by planning to stop using the Dollar. But now it is picking fights that will either speed up its demise or lead to WW3.
There is no easy answer to this problem. America has ridden a tidal wave of wealth on the back of printing Dollars for the whole world. It has not been content with just that free ride it has also sought to use it as an instrument to chastise nations that will not bend the knee. The result of this is that half the world want out from under the American heel and there is nothing short of destroying the world that the US can do about it.