The United States, Britain, France, Turkey, and perhaps other countries could send warplanes to stop Assad's artillery and bombing attacks in a defined area by enforcing a no-fly zone and by helping rebels to defend the zone’s perimeter -- without putting foreign troops on the ground. Between 1991 and 2003, the United States engaged in something similar in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, for the most part successfully, but at high financial cost.
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