Syria is their baby...................Let them bleed and spend their money on saving their puppet, aka Assad........................
Assad is the only one capable, WITH RUSSIAN SUPPORT, of holding the place after.................the FSA is a pipe dream...............
And a Assad win COULD? be a buffer for the Shiites moving into the region......................That is yet to be seen as the Iranian proxy troops also battle in the region and their puppets the Hez.............................
Cubans wanting to go.............Well go ahead.
Assad is an Alawite, which is a faction of Shi'a Islam. so, no, he'd probably throw in with the Iranians, who've been the allies of his family since the 1970's.