但除了能令叙利亚统治者巴沙尔·阿萨德不再过于贸然地使用化学武器外，无论是民主党人或共和党人没有一个可信的计划去结束叙利亚战争或大量帮助叙利亚平民。
But no one, Democrat or Republican, has a plausible plan either for ending the war in Syria or even for helping Syrian civilians in significant numbers, other than making it risky for Syria’s ruler, Bashar al-Assad, to use chemical weapons too blatantly.