(If chemical weapons are deployed, intervention will become inevitable.) Although intervention would be temporary and technically limited, everyone seems to be avoiding it, because the stakes are very high: not only a devastating civil war and massive human suffering, but also a new order for the whole of the Middle East.
所有这些矛盾目前在叙利亚出现了大爆发。叙利亚人民正在遭遇人道主义灾难，而世界冷眼旁观，到目前为止不愿施以援手（如果动用了化学武器，则干预将不可避免）。尽管干预可以是暂时性的、技术上也存在限制，但所有人都在避免这么做，因为干预的代价极高：不但包括灾难性内战和大规模人道伤害，也包括整个中东的新秩序。