布鲁金斯学会外交政策专家苏珊·马洛尼指出，中东及其他地区国家已经对美国在叙利亚问题上鲜有作为而感到沮丧。
As Brookings Institution foreign-policy expert Suzanne Maloney points out, countries in the region and beyond are already dismayed at the lack of US leadership concerning Syria.