Glenn Garvin, writing for the Miami Herald, says we should stay out of Syria. COTTonLINE believes Garvin is correct. Neither side in Syria deserves our support, nor will either side end up being a government with which we would want to ally.
A truly Machiavellian approach would be to determine the weaker side and aid them just enough to keep the war at fever pitch, but not enough to win. The British did a lot of this, and called it "a balance of power."