That open-ended statement, without any clear means to achieve the goal that it announced, has done much to fuel military escalation and the rising death toll in Syria, while pushing the US repeatedly to defend its “credibility” against a line in the sand that it should not have drawn.
这一陈述颇为含糊，并没有给出实现这一目标的手段，结果导致了叙利亚军事冲突升级和死亡人数暴增，同时也给美国自己划了一条毫无必要的底线，使其不得不一再捍卫自己的“信誉”。