“US armed intervention in Syria would not resolve the civil war and rebel forces cannot be relied on to back American interests, the top military chief said. Pushing back against calls for air strikes and other action, General Martin Dempsey said in a letter to one lawmaker that US military leaders were not ‘reticent, weary or risk averse’ but rather mindful of the costs of war and ‘pragmatic about the limits of military force.’ He said knocking out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s air force was an option but it could drag the United States into an open-ended war. ‘Syria today is not about choosing between two sides but rather about choosing one among many sides,’ Dempsey wrote.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/21/top-general-syrian-rebels-do-not-support-u-s-interests/