"Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war."
Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate. He received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering femtochemistry. He was also a science policy advisor and educator in the United States.