The Syrian Civil War has raged on for almost two years, and has killed close to 40,000 people in Syria, and displaced almost half a million more, as well as causing over a million people to flee the country, causing more issues in the surrounding countries such as Turkey and Jordan.
The United States has not taken any action outside of the UN, and that needs to change, as nothing will come of diplomacy, and we need to act before Bashar Al-Assad has a chance to use his chemical weapons on the revolutionary forces.
If the current administration is so insistent on attacking Iran economically, then destroying the current, oppressive Syrian regime is a good start.