The Assads are hanging out with some bad guys. Hezbollah is backed by Iran.
Iran was a glorious Western Oriented, Cosmopolitan, Free Society of All Religions, until US Marxist Democrats refused to back the Shah because he was mean to Muzzie Terrorists.
THEN we got modern Ayatollah Iran.
The US demanded "Regime Change" for Syria for exactly the same reason, although the Assads had kept the world safe from the Muslim Brotherhood for Decades.
By killing them.