If you barely stick a toe into the lake of violence in syria and just throw money down the drain, you achieve nothing but make everyone angry at you.
Syria needs a strong coordinated coalition force working towards an agreed to goal, not random bombing that scatters the ants temporarily but allows them to scamper back.
We respond far too late and with too little purpose.
Everyone seems to be doing their own thing for show and no one really cares about the destruction or collateral. Big bomb, big price, big hole, little result. If you don't have the intelligence and specific goal/target, it is a loud voice with a fly swatter.
If we are not going to use force to stop the massacres by both Assad and ISIS, we should help create a safe zone within syria for those who are displace. Help them build a life for syrians in syria. Help them create an opposition government for all syrians that can step up when a transition is possible that can run the essential service to keep the government functioning and to prepare for open and fair election that represent all the people. Prepare and educate them to rebuilt and guide the run a united government and a strong economy. Give them an alternative to the violence and a hope for the future. Give them the building block to put syria back together.