Just throwing this out.

We have a big problem with Syria. No way we can afford %50 million a day or what ever for some piss ant no fly zone. We cannot give major arms to the rebels because most of them are bad guys anyway. Putin and Iran back that criminal Assad, and that is not going to change. This war is spilling over into Lebanon, Jordan and is impacting Israel. The US cannot put in ground troops. As things are now the UN is not going to go in there Bosnia style.

It may be time for Obama to make the same decision Truman made to end WWII. But not with nukes, but drones and cruise missiles.

He could do the following:

1. Make an oval office speech saying there is to be a ceaasefire and access by UN peacekeepers within 72 hours OR ELSE. That deadline will come and go.

In short order drones and missiles hit the battle zones, they take out Assad and his generals, and if we hit a few Hezbollah targets....what the hell.

We also give Israel the green light to simultaneously hit Iran's nuke sites and major air bases.
Then we start talking about a peace process from this position of strength.

The consequences? Rioting in the Muslim world, the Iranian radicals hate us,the terrorists will plot against us. There might even be some terrorist attacks. Putin will be pissed as hell and rattle his sabres.

And if all this happens, what's new? We are already in this situation anyway. The difference is we take out some bad guys without risking any more US troops, and we change the whole dynamic. Further the bad guys might think Obama grew a pair and they will come to the table.

Thats what happened when Truman dropped the big ones on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it iw worth consideration here and now.