Do you think the US Military is going to SKYPE with the allies over there? The US already has personnel there. Dying there. And from the sound of it, on the wrong side. Assad protects Christians; Taliban, Al Qaeda, not so much.
The effort is to restore lands to Kurds and Sunni’s in Iraq and Syria.
That is, to eliminate the false boundaries established way back in 1918 by French and Brit diplomats intent on carving up the defeated Ottoman empire