Difficult situation hinders intervention

A military strike in Syria carries too many risks, according to the news magazine Wprost: "The cynics would say that there is and will be no intervention because Syria is poor and has no oil. But this explanation is trite, oversimplified and inaccurate. The truth is that the situation in the Middle East is unusually difficult and the West is at a loss as to how to react. With Barack Obama's government you can't rule out an idealist motivation, but even the idealists must pursue the path of the realists and be aware of their own limits. A military intervention would lead to a definitive freeze in relations between the West and Iran which are already not the best. It would also put the security of the allies Israel, Jordan and Lebanon at risk."

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