For their part, Western countries must avoid the traps of the difficult negotiation process that the deal demands, without losing sight of their strategic goal of ending the conflict. The complex process of securing and destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal promises to be next to impossible in the midst of a civil war.
西方国家必须避开协议所必须的艰苦谈判过程的陷阱，同时牢记自己终止冲突的战略目的。要想在内战期间实现集中并销毁叙利亚化学武器的复杂任务几乎是不可能的。要想取得成功，西方领导人必须放弃自危机伊始就一直左右其政策的假设重新思考收拾叙利亚残局的策略。