Regarding the Syrian civil war and the possibility of the U.S. being able to influence its outcome, Elliott Abrams suggests that the most feasible resolution acceptable to American interests would be the replacement of the Assad regime with a weak central government and the division of the country into enclaves along ethnic and religious lines. (Interview by Michael Graham. Audio, ten minutes.)
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