There is an argument, made by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, that a swift punishment might persuade Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to stop using chemical weapons and use “more banal ways to slaughter his people.” This does not make sense to me.
尼古拉斯·克里斯托夫在《纽约时报》上提出迅速实施惩戒可以说服叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德停止使用化学武器，转而用“更平庸的方式屠杀叙利亚民众”。这在我看来没有道理，因为有问题的肯定是屠杀，而不是屠杀的方式。