Two things:

1. Google the neo-conservative 'Project for a New American Century' to find out all about the wonders of a unilateral Pax Americana. There is a reason they were so unpopular and I suspect it hasn't stopped given Libya and Syria. 
2. Clinton and company were pushing for air control over all of Syria.  A General warned them that this would be a declaration of war on Russia.  They kept pushing.  

I dearly and surely do not want to see WW III in my life time.  I would like the world's asinine politicians to stop trying to make it happen.