In Syria, try banks before bombs

As President Barack Obama weighs the U.S. response to chemical weapons attacks against Syrian civilians, one soft power option should still be at top of his to-do list: cutting off access to the U.S. financial system to those doing business with Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/08/29/in-syria-try-banks-before-bombs/