The United States will stop at nothing in the pursuit of their geopolitical objective of blocking the "sub-Caspian" corridor to the Mediterranean from Russia and China, through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria to the Mediterranean. This vulnerability arises from the disastrous illegal war in Iraq, which has taken a million lives, at least. As Henry Kissinger has lamented, this has done nothing but to hand Iraq over to Iran.
So, as the result of the US-initiated action against Syria, 60,000 have died so far, and another 100,000 will probably die, at minimum, in order to achieve the US objective. The US does not care how many people die.
As Vojislav Kostunica, International Law scholar and former President of the Republidc of Serbia has said: "The United States, which used to be the symbol of freedom in the world, has now become the symbol of Force.