Nato members could act against Syria without UN mandate

[AverageJoe90]

11. Sorry, Mr. Jeff, but no. Just no.

However, I think historical events would tend to suggest you're quite mistaken.

Which ones? If you're going to say World War I, forget it. There was no general unawareness that something was coming, outside of maybe the U.S.; tensions had been building up for years and things could very well have gone lopsided as much as a full decade before they did. And if you're going to bring up other Middle East wars, I can tell you that every single one of these wars, with maybe the exception of '48, all had a real chance of turning into WWIII, especially Yom Kippur. But even in this era of constant tension, it never went that far. And now that the Cold War has been over for 20 years now, it's practically next to impossible now, unless a Mussolini or Hitler-like dictator were to take over Russia or something(which isn't likely).