The only way to extricate Syria from the fatal Iranian embrace is to draw it into a regional scheme for peace. Alas, precisely because of their isolation and the Ba’athist regime’s paranoiac nature, the Syrians are unlikely to meet the US condition for peace talks: abandoning their current rogue alliances and their marriage with terror.
使叙利亚摆脱伊朗人的死亡拥抱的唯一办法就是将其引进一项区域性的和平计划。可恰恰是因为它的孤立状态和社会党政权偏执的特点，叙利亚人很可能满足不了美国的和谈条件：放弃它们目前的流氓联盟和对恐怖主义的支持。但大马士革人的转变只能是谈判的结果，而非对他们的先决条件。