No longer willing to be a codependent enabler to stupid leadership decisions espoused on my behalf, and despite the structure around the pretext that failing to support them makes me unpatriotic, I’m furious with our President on this Syrian fiasco.
This is not a zero sum game, and I do not accept the presentation as such.   I also hold a principle that history holds value.
A failure to support President Obama’s personal opinion is not equivalent to supporting Assad or Iran.   The missing context is the application of freedom principles and history.  It is not unpatriotic to support freedom – It WAS unpatriotic of President Obama to draw a “red line” in our national sand without seeking permission of forethought.

Obama’s failure to look at the long-term consequence, and the subsequent consequential isolation, is his construct – not ours; and despite his pontifications to the contrary, we should not be co-dependents to his poor leadership.
His approach in this regard has been catastrophic to Egypt and Libya.   The former only just recently finding a roadmap back toward freedom; the latter ending up with a geographically divided country with Eastern Libya under radical extremist Islamic control.
If Assad is removed there is no structural reason, no historical reason, to believe freedom will rise from the ashes of four decades of dictatorial fiat from a family regime.   There is, however, a very good case to make that Syria will devolve into another Radical Islamist state along the model of Benghazi the Libyan city.
Heck, even the Arab League is not willing to put their thumb visibly on the scale of consequence.   The very neighbors around Syria want nothing to do with ownership of any outcome beyond the removal of Assad; and the Leagues’ only defining unity is based around a common belief in the removal of the State of Israel.
So what is an alternate Syrian course if this is not a zero sum game?
Put the full-throated weight of freedom back on display.    Remember what internal pressures were like behind the Iron Gate of freedom in Russia, Poland and behind the Berlin Wall?
Why not put our diplomatic corps back into Syria and have them engage/support the opposition forces while openly espousing the principles of freedom and individual liberty?
Why not stand with the protesters?    Support and help create an internal reform agenda where a new political paradigm can rise?    It does not have to be western in construct, and perhaps we would not recognize it as value, but if essential freedom were the cornerstone then a new nation could arise.  A stronger nation, a more stable nation.
To evidence the possibility one would only need turn an eye toward neighboring Jordan.  Perfect?  No.  But better?  Yes.
We should well know what will happen with the current course;  as previously mentioned we have all been witness to it in Egypt 2010, and Libya 2011.    So why would Syria be any different ?