As bad as the Assad government is, and as much as it has to answer for, this outcome is arguably preferable in the short run to the regime’s collapse. The painful truth in Syria today is that a government implosion would most likely lead to genocide, millions more displaced people, and the establishment of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate in Damascus.
巴沙尔政府是个坏政府，并且它应该受到惩罚，但从短期看，这一结果很可能比政权倒台更好。如今，叙利亚的痛苦事实是政府从内部崩溃很可能导致种族灭绝，增加几百万流离失所者，伊斯兰国也有可能在大马士革建立所谓的哈里发。