从超越短期的视角看，这会产生意料之外的重大后果，有可能使叙利亚发生伊拉克式的“软”分裂以及在伊斯兰教控制的叙利亚北部和伊拉克逊尼派势力区形成大量极端主义者避风港。
Beyond the short term, it would unleash major unintended consequences, potentially including an Iraq-style “soft” partition of Syria and the creation of a haven for extremists stretching across much of Islamist-controlled northern Syria and into the Sunni areas of Iraq.