Several American experts on Middle East in an article in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) wrote that the military intervention in Syria will have no happy ending, reiterating that any US military intervention will deteriorate the situation in Syrian instead of resolving the crisis in that country.
Advocates of overt US military intervention failed to offer a credible scenario for stability in Syria, the article said.
In fact, the most likely scenario in the rebellion against Bashar al-Assad has no ending at all, rather, protracted war between various Arab Syrian rebel factions, it added.
CFR's Max boot, an expert of national security studies, said Washington needs "to get off the sidelines" and do something substantial to resolve Syria's crisis.
Another expert, the New American Foundation's Brian Fishman, noted that the US military intervention is unlikely to produce a stable post-conflict Syrian government and recommended a patient approach to be adopted by the US official rather considering "military intervention" of the crisis-hit country.
Advocates of intervention argue that a US presence would check the growth of al-Qaeda in Syria. This is fantasy, which is encouraged by well-meaning and basically righteous Syrian factions hoping for US help, it noted.
After recent forays into similar terrain in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States cannot afford (politically or economically) to insert itself directly in yet another bloody conflict, the article said.
The challenge in Syria is particularly acute because of al-Nusrat Front, an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant network that has become a major player in the Syrian rebellion, it added.
Advocates of intervention in Syria sometimes point to Bosnia and Libya, where US intervention helped staunch civil war and overthrow Muammar Qaddafi in the African country, the article said.
But all of the negative effects of US intervention in Libya will be worse in Syria, it said.
Two Syrian neighbors, Lebanon and Iraq, have underscored the costs and risks of US military intervention in civil wars in the Middle East.
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A team of American political analysts and experts said that the supporters of the US direct military intervention in Syria are unable to provide a credible scenario for putting an end to the Arab country's current crisis, and urged Washington to cross out the military intervention option.
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