(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - There have been 17 major peace initiatives for Syria in five years. The war in Syria involves four foreign states - Russia, Iran, Turkey and the U.S. - and at least five major nonstate militias, along with the Assad regime itself. But at its root the war is a zero-sum struggle for power. The best option is to partition the country. The point of partition is to shrink Syria's problems to more manageable dimensions. In the 1990s the world was confronted by a similar spiral of horrors in the Balkans. What was once Yugoslavia is today seven separate countries.
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