I've been doing some reading on U.S. Intervention in Syria and I just don't get it. Why would Obama want to attack Syria when it was relatively stable before the intervention. Also any other knowledge about the situation would be helpful.
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Popular theory going around is to protect the Turkey-Qatar pipeline running through the country.
Or because since we are nation building Iraq we needed to get rid of a military threat growing to the north who had ambitions/spread into Iraq
Or morally we had a duty to take out isis which was committing crimes against humanity and which we held some blame for it's uprising.