That's always the case with Muslim ummah, always falling in to traps. Syria was in a state of war with Israel but the rebels and its funders/backers spread propaganda that Assad was usa puppet lol, used anti Shia propaganda (we all know who was responsible), aim was to destroy Syria and that's exactly what happened. Syria was the backer of Hizbollah during 2006 so they destroyed the backer first and now going after Hizbollah, if Assad government fell we would be witnessing salafis marching towards Lebanon to fight hizbollah, but it failed although Assad is too weak and nation is divided right now. Turkey also fell for the trap, instead of backing Bashar they went anti Bashar and weaken him, this then made kurds strong and great threat emerged for Turkey, already in Iraq kurds have autonomous rule and now in Syria, a big threat for Turkey but I doubt they realise it.