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If anything, NATO has more of an interest in defusing Syria's crisis than Libya's. Turkey, a NATO member, is on Syria's border and has seen violence spill into its territory. Other nations are threatened, too; Sunday night a cleric sympathetic to Mr. Assad's opponents was assassinated in Lebanon. Libya is of modest strategic importance, while the fall of the Assad regime, Iran's major ally in the Arab world, would have strategic benefits for the United States, Israel and everyone else working to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power.