Today on the Daily Standard podcast, former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams says the future of Syria likely involves “zones of influence,” a soft partition of Syria with a weak central government. He also says that one of those zones may be an Alawite zone with “significant Russian influence, and we can live with that.”

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