The original intention of the neocons was regime change in [[Syria]] - the overthrow of [[Bashar Assad]] - without using American troops. Radical Islamic terrorists, many of their leaders supposedly "de-radicalized" while in American detention, were returned to their groups to form new militias armed and trained by American, Turkish, Saudi, and Qatari Special Operations Forces and advisors. By removing the Syrian Alawite regime aligned with [[Iran]], the hope was to rid Syria of [[Hezbollah]], a 10,000 man force which is directly under the command and control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and deemed a threat to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Gulf states.
The [[Benghazi massacre]] however, slowed the progress of arming the Syrian jihadis, now dubbed "moderate rebels" by the Obama administration and it's sycophantic media. The Syrian government gained popular support as the people of Syria witnessed foreign jihadis backed by the Obama administration and it's allies, flood Syria with psychotic killers and weapons. With a quick resolution not in the offing, Russian troops intervened preventing the Obama administration from establidhing a no-fly zone to aid its radical jihadis on the ground to overthrow the government, as had been done in [[Libya]].
== Neoconservatism and Donald Trump ==