First, they dispatched a three-country mission (Brazil, India, and South Africa) to Damascus to “persuade” Assad not to murder his people. Needless to say, he did not respond that, yes, he had killed a few thousand here and there, but that now that they brought it up, he would try to be more careful.
而如今，欧洲和美国试图对叙利亚总统阿萨德实施联合国授权的制裁行动，对此金砖国家的举动甚至比利比亚问题还不如。首先，它们派遣了一个三国代表团（巴西、印度和南非）去大马士革“说服”阿萨德不要杀戮他的人民。不消说，他对此根本不予理睬。是的，他已经杀了好几千人，但既然如今它们提到了这个问题，他想必会三思而后行。