Why the United States hasn’t intervened in Syria (Steven Heydemann, Brookings)

On March 17, Syria’s uprising will enter its sixth bloodstained year. The country that existed before the uprising is gone. Its people have been ravaged and dispossessed. Its economy destroyed. Its terrain laid waste by its own leaders and their international patrons.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/03/17-us-non-intervention-syria-heydemann