Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her books include Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror.
What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction.
The United Nations desperately needs reform. The power relations of the global organisations structure - particularly the undemocratic Security Council - cry out for transformation. Yet the most powerful