why is it anyone's responsibility to end the Syrian civil war?
Shadi Hamid makes the case for military intervention in Syria:
Military action, in any context, should not be taken lightly. But neither should standing by and proposing measures that have, in Syria, so far failed to work. Opponents of intervention need to explain how staying the current courseâ??hoping that diplomacy might work when it has not for nearly a yearâ??is likely to resolve an increasingly deadly civil war.
He then goes out to outline what he thinks would resolve the civil war - creating "safe zones" inside Syria and arming the rebels. This seems to me unlike to "resolve" the war so much as escalate it, but that aside I think a more fundamental question needs to be answered: why is it anyone's responsibility to end the Syrian civil war?
