Should The West Intervene In Syria? [View all]

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Everything the international community has done so far in Syria has had virtually no effect, says Steve Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The growing number of deaths has led to calls for some sort of Western intervention. Cook tells NPR's Raz that anything short of a direct intervention is unlikely to have a positive outcome.

"It is time to at least start a debate about what international intervention might look like," Cook says, "whether it's a no-fly zone ... whether it is arming the opposition [or] whether it is the introduction of troops in order to separate the opposition from the Syrian military."

Although he supports the Arab League's efforts with observers in Syria and the power of the people's movement, Cook says there are limits to what they can do.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145610499/should-the-west-intervene-in-syria

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I got my opinion, but at this point do not care to say much on this. Suffice it to say things are going where some of us said it was and was called a conspiracy theory.