As Morell put it, the most acute danger is that a regime with a large stockpile of weapons of mass destruction will be supplanted by a regime affiliated with, or dominated by, Al Qaeda. Pointing to the inflow of jihadis, Morell said that Syria’s “current track is toward the collapse of its central government,” after which it would replace Pakistan as Al Qaeda’s preferred haven.
正如莫雷尔所言，与基地组织有染或受其操纵的政府取代掌握大规模杀伤性武器政府的危险现在正迫在眉睫。谈到大批圣战份子流入的问题时，莫雷尔指出叙利亚“中央政府正在走向解体，” 叙利亚此后将取代巴基斯坦成为基地组织首选的避风港。