Obama Told Syria Could Turn Into Somalia

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- President Barack Obama has been warned that without
U.S. intervention Syria would threaten the Middle East.
The Brookings Institution asserted that Syria could turn into a failed
state with the potential to threaten its neighbors. In a briefing for Obama,
the institution said the president must intervene to facilitate a transfer
of power should the regime of President Bashar Assad fall.