PRINCETON – The prospect of a US military strike on Syria has dimmed following President Barack Obama’s embrace of an international initiative to take control of Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile. The eleventh-hour U-turn on the push for military action has come against a backdrop of intensifying diplomatic pressure from the international community to avoid escalation of the violence in Syria.
普林斯顿——继美国总统奥巴马接受控制叙利亚化学武器库存的国际倡议之后，美国军事打击叙利亚的可能性已经越来越小。国际社会呼吁避免叙利亚暴力活动升级的外交压力越来越强，直接导致了此次军事行动在最后时刻调头。没有伊朗的参与根本不可能实现这一目标。