The entire world agrees that the Syrian regime has been flagrantly suppressing the will of its own people. As global human rights groups have said the regime has been using unimaginable cruelty to quell the unrest in the country. They have denounced the killing of children, women and the elderly. This cruelty prompted the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to call upon the United Nations Security Council to do something in support of the Arab League plan to resolve the crisis instead of just standing by and watching the killing of the Syrian people by the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The Secretary-General of the Arab League has asked the Security Council to take quick and decisive action to stop the violence and resolve the crisis in accordance with the expectations of the Syrian people. Should the Security Council pass a resolution to use force to resolve this crisis? Or should it keep searching for a diplomatic solution? There seems to be a lack of consensus on these questions. The deliberations of the Security Council will most likely be thorough and it will take some time before a resolution can be put to a vote. Meanwhile, the Syrian regime will continue using repressive methods and maneuvers to attempt to break the backbone of the uprising. The way things are going in Syria, civil strife may erupt into a larger conflict, considering that the Syrian people seem determined to make sacrifices to end the regime's draconian rule. If the UN passes a resolution, most likely the Syrian regime will pretend to support it but at the same time will attempt to undermine it insidiously as it did with the Arab League plan. In this scenario, a diplomatic solution would be unlikely to succeed. In the end, the entire world may realize that a military solution, which Security Council members are trying to avoid, may be the only way to save the Syrian people. Although no one wants this to happen, the UN Security Council may be forced to play that card as a last resort. __
