Where the politics of escalation against Syria is heading in the near future ?

We actually know the intentions of lebanese anti-syrian politicians, new dissidents to the syrian regime like Khaddam and, most of all, those of Israel and the US toward Syria but we don't know how the politics of escalation and submission that is been going on for the last year will turn out. But isn't this the essence of US foreign policy, throwing chaos in the middle east in order to weaken the will of the countries who resist the US and Israel , now and in the long run, and to keep them busy figuring out how to survive ?