President Obama did absolutely the right thing keeping the U.S. out of Syria. Read 'Obama's Wars' by Woodward and you see all his military/CIA advisors urging involvement, and his answer-will this make things worse?  will it become a quagmire disaster of U.S. blood and treasure? And so he decided No.  Name me from history a U.S. boots on the ground in the middle east that did not turn into a fiscal and bloody disaster. This is not the West's fight.  Middle Eastern countries are going to have to be left to settle their own affairs wearing pants like big boys - if they can be reasonable, good, if they make a bloody mess of it, that's too bad but not our business.  The far-right and far-left in the West have to rid themselves of the colonial delusion that we are magical countries of unlimited resources who's job it is to run around the world spending our tax dollars and young soldiers lives 'fixing' other regions problems. China doesn't run around wasting money abroad - smart.