Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous mistake in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following September 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama’s proposal for US military action in Syria. Maintaining the international prohibition on the use of chemical weapons is an urgent concern.
国会必须小心避免重蹈2003年支持伊拉克战争的灾难性错误的覆辙，但美国在1973年9月11日后所秉承的推行人权承诺似乎才是评估奥巴马的美国军事干预叙利亚方案的更合适的标准。维护使用化学武器的国际禁令是迫切的问题。