Then they made statement after statement claiming that Syria was not Libya, and they would not allow another Western intervention to achieve regime change in another Arab country just because its people seemed upset with the local dictator. In the words of a senior NGO human rights leader: “They’re punishing the Syrian people because they were unhappy that NATO took the mandate of protecting civilians in Libya and transformed it into a mandate for regime change.”
其次，它们一次又一次发表声明说叙利亚不是利比亚，它们不会允许西方再次干预从而让又一个阿拉伯国家仅仅因为人民对国内独裁者有所不满而改变其制度。用某高级非政府组织人权领导者的话说，“它们在惩罚叙利亚人民，原因是它们不满北约下令保护利比亚平民，最终却变为下令改变利比亚体制。”