While the Arab League seemed to act decisively last November when it suspended Syria’s membership, the military-observer mission that it sent to Syria was a farce. Turkey’s initiatives have lost steam, and the United States and its European allies are merely going through the diplomatic motions; in practice, their efforts imply little serious impact on the regime.
但对阿萨德施加的地区和国际压力都没有效果。尽管阿盟去年11月暂停叙利亚成员资格时似乎异常果断，但它派往叙利亚的军事观察员团却不失为一场闹剧。土耳其的计划已经没有动力可言，而美国及其欧洲盟国只是摆出一副外交姿态，其实他们的所作所为对叙利亚政权影响甚微。