To be fair, the recent military actions haven't been a stellar show of military skill. It took how many years to find and kill Bin Laden? Not to mention the Al-Qaeda managing to fend off attacks from high-tech military weaponry with little more than Gulf War relics and home-made explosive devices.Are you serious?? There is some dipshit on the planet who is practically INVITING our military to attack his country?? Obviously he's got a serious death wish if he thinks the Armed Forces would have any trouble blowing his entire country to the other side of the galaxy should we choose to do so. I don't WANT us over there, but the idea that we'd have any problem taking them all out is hysterical.
I'm not saying the US couldn't destroy Syria, merely that they probably would struggle somewhat, both from a combat perspective, and the resulting political backlash.