Military Intervention in Syria Is a Bad Idea admin, April 2, 2012August 16, 2024 Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, Antiwar.com, Common Dreams, March 29, 2012 Empirical studies have repeatedly demonstrated that international military interventions in cases of severe repression actually exacerbate violence in the short term and can only reduce violence in the longer term if the intervention is impartial or neutral. Other studies demonstrate that foreign military interventions actually increase the duration of civil wars, making the conflicts longer and bloodier, and the regional consequences more serious… Huffington Post Nonviolent Action Syria