One school regards Syria primarily as a theater of battle against Al Qaeda and other extremists. Its adherents, preoccupied with the prospect of a jihadi takeover in Syria, argue (sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly) that the US and its allies must not support or intervene on the side of the rebels and, in fact, should view Bashar al-Assad’s regime as the lesser evil.
一种思想把叙利亚看作对抗基地组织和其他恐怖份子的主战场。这种思想的追随者完全沉浸在圣战份子对叙利亚占领的恐惧中无法自拔，他们（有时含蓄有时明确地）主张美国及其盟友不应支持或者代表叛乱分子，而应把巴沙尔·阿萨德政府看作两害相权取其轻的选择。