Direct military intervention to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would never win Security Council approval, and has no volunteers anyway among capable military powers – albeit in most cases because of the political and military risks involved, rather than the legal indefensibility of acting outside the UN Charter. A less partisan intervention – pouring in troops and airpower to separate the warring parties forcibly – also has no takers, no likely UN authority, and only marginal hope of causing less harm than it would be intended to avoid.
直接军事干预推翻叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权不可能赢得安理会批准，有能力进行军事干预的大国也不会站出来充当志愿军——尽管原因大多是政治性和军事风险性的，而不是因为在联合国宪章之外采取行动的非法性。偏向性更小的干预——派遣军队和控制制空权从而强制分离战争双方——也没有实施者，无法获得联合国授权，其效果也只能是减少伤害，而不可能是计划中的避免伤害。