Ragardless of what Israel may be telling the US to do, it's very likely that

Intervention in Syria Is Morally Justified—and Completely Impractical

This is a contribution to ‘What Should the United States Do About Syria?: A TNR Symposium.’

In trying to think through what outsiders should do to stop the killing in Syria, the only unambiguous issue is the moral one. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is perpetrating crimes against humanity upon his own people. The “responsibility to protect,” unanimously adopted at the U.N. in 2005, stipulates that when states fail to protect their own citizens from mass atrocities, other states have an affirmative responsibility to act. Only a gross cynic—say, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov—could argue that Assad has not triggered this international obligation. An intervention would be morally justified, just as it was in Libya.

So far, therefore, I agree with Leon Wieseltier, who argues for such an intervention. But this is not a classroom; and calls for action have to clear both a prudential hurdle and a practical one. ...

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/100615/syria-symposium-intervention-arab-league

That qualifier is missing from the following Foreign Affairs account:

Right, Putin lost a lot of money in the Libya deal.

Russia just seems to be less altruistic than the United States whose charitable expenses in Libya were as follows:

According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi's head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department. ...

The final totals will take some time to add up, and still do not include the State Department, CIA, and other agencies involved or other NATO and participating countries. Vice President Joe Biden said that the U.S. "spent $2 billion total and didn't lose a single life."  (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/for-the-us-war-against-qaddafi-cost-relatively-little-11-billion/247133/)

Compared to such a bill on the US third simultaneous front alone, Russia does seem to be poor...

But, hey, can we all be rich and famous?

And Qaddafi was such a nice guy. His people will miss him.

A few more nice guys to go:

Should keep this thread busy throughout another Spring.

So you're in favor of keeping all police states in power? Or just those hostile to the West?

A dictator is a dictator and supporting them in once own backyard while crying blue murder elsewhere is called?

Hint:

And a hypocrite criticizes only Americans and remains silent about the slaughter committed by his friends.

Then