TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

Some six million people are now awaiting their fate as a superpower decides whether or not to launch strikes  on their capital.
From time to time, the calm is punctuated with blasts as rebels on the outside of the city fire into Damascus.
The rebels who have been militarily defeated are pushing for strikes on this still beautiful and largely untouched gem of a capital.
No doubt the people on whose behalf they claim to be acting, are the ones who are now looking into the sky and wondering what horror is going to be visited upon them.
And there lies the dilemma of any humanitarian intervention, namely that there’s no such thing as a clean war.
People always suffer in war, the carnage leaves a mark and as the attacks of 9/11 showed any intervention can have unintended consequences.
So, as the American congress meets on September 11 to decide the fate of the regime in Damascus, they may want to consider what has happened to coalition of the willing that had been built for Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when one American  president . rushed to war, eager to punish that ‘son of a bitch’ Saddam.
They may also want to consider this:
when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the leader of that country could never have imagined that he had set in place a change of events that would tod
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