Matthews: What can the West hope to achieve with a military strike on Syria?
Executive director, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
The best scenario is that surgical strikes avoid causing any collateral damage, does not create a new wave of forced displacement, and weakens Assad’s ability to wage war against his people. Worst case scenario is the bombing draws in other countries into a larger regional war, the rebel faction become even more reluctant to negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict, while massive human suffering continues.
