Another is that the regulator has been armed with powers to counter moral hazard the temptation for companies to behave more riskily towards their pension funds once there is an insurance safety-net.
Once we give up our moral compass of government deriving its powers from the people. we must also give up any empirical compass of how much we must surrender to government.
Although legally the transitional government has all the powers of an ordinary government, the opposition may argue that it lacks the moral authority to make far-reaching territorial concessions.
Despite the moral, humanitarian and strategic arguments for intervention, Syria is a trap that threatens to suck external powers in and shackle them with responsibility for war-making, peacekeeping and a reconstruction effort that could eventually involve thousands of boots on the ground and billions of dollars in assistance.