To be sure, many countries ­now believe that the West is going too far in challenging state sovereignty, with even European countries like Germany recoiling at the prospect of military confrontation. At the G-20 summit in early September, for example, US President Barack Obama struggled to convince ten states to sign a declaration on Syria that did not even mention the use of force.
可以肯定，很多国家现在认为西方过分挑战了国家主权，就连德国这样的欧洲国家都对军事对抗的前景望而却步。比方说，美国总统奥巴马在9月初举行的G-20峰会上努力游说十国签署根本没有提到武力应用的叙利亚问题声明。只有美、英、法三国仍然愿意在必要的情况下使用武力。