Syria is almost exclusively owned by Susan Rice and Samantha Power, who completely misinterpreted the nature of the “Arab Spring.”
Arab Spring is some geeky political science paper from the 1980s that someone kept talking about and finally got some dimwits to hype and make into a four-star production. The end result is unstable governments which lead onto more chaos.
I believe they were old by Hillary to destabilize as much of the ME as they could to the advantage of the Muzzie brotherhood. When that blew up in Egypt, the countervailing forces took over and it emboldened Assad and company.