Why Syria's war suddenly looks more dangerous

May 12, 2013 00:06

While the world's attention was focused on Boston and North Korea, the conflict in Syria entered a new phase -- one that threatens to embroil its neighbors in a chaotic way and pose complex challenges to the Obama administration. What began as a protest movement long ago became an uprising that metastasized into a war, a vicious whirlpool dragging a whole region toward it.

Many analysts believe the United States can do little to influence -- let alone control -- the situation. And it could make things worse. Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics argues against the United States "plunging into the killing fields of Syria ... because it would complicate and exacerbate an already dangerous conflict."

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Image: A Free Syrian Army fighter sits on sandbags in the refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Damascus | Photograph: Ward Al-Keswani/Reuters

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