PRINCETON – As the United States and Russia try to broker a conference that can bring the various sides in the Syrian conflict to the negotiating table, potential Western participants, at least, should be thinking about the larger implications of the Syrian conflict for dictators and democracies around the world. Here are the lessons thus far:
普林斯顿——在美俄试图促成会谈让叙利亚冲突各方重回谈判桌的同时，至少潜在的西方参与者应当思考叙利亚冲突对全球独裁和民主政体可能造成的宏观影响。迄今为止应该吸取的教训如下：