Partition Not the Inevitable Solution in Syria

Omar Al Muqdad, National
It’s becoming more obvious that the world powers find it much easier to think of dividing the country than exerting pressure on Mr Al Assad to step down. Of course, it’s easier to move to plan B when Mr Al Assad is growing only more defiant and showing no willingness to make any concessions. Those who are leaning towards the idea of partition cannot have imagined how a fragmented Syria would affect the world in general and the region in particular. Having to deal with a divided Syria would cause endless feuding in every country around it, and would create an undesirable headache...