Yes, that's why the American-backed Canadian Liberation Front has been so successful at destabilizing Canada so that we can launch an intervention and seize their delicious oil sand fields from which we derive nearly a fifth our of imports.
Sounds stupid? So do you. The three largest exporters to the US are close allies, and Venezuela's dick-waving Chavismo rhetoric against the US is more or less for the polls these days.
As for people talking about the possibility of a false-flag chemical attack by rebels to give the West a reason to intervene, or otherwise questioning the scale of the chemical attacks, these are at least hold merit, particularly in my opinion the latter. I highly doubt the scale of the attacks, according to the current casualty reports, even come close to the usage of chemical weapons by Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war or by Iraq against Kurds to the north (and even the latter had roughly the same death toll and was even more one-sided than the current Syrian civil war.) Whether or not international law with sustain the claims and warrant intervention is irrelevant at this point, Russia will veto, with China also vetoing or abstaining.
More curious is that the British parliament just rejected action by a narrow margin, which hurts the possibility of a robust coalition to shore up support for some level of action.
BBC News - David Cameron loses Syria vote in Commons