Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and United States Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.Sept. 22, 2016. Jason DeCrow/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
The next US president is going to be in the unenviable position of having to make some difficult decisions in trying to effect positive change in the Middle East. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Syria.
A century after the Sykes - Picot agreement established British and French spheres of influence across the Levant, a new division within nation states along religious, sectarian and ethnic lines could be far more detrimental to the long term stability of a weakened regional system and could ultimately lead to the Balkanisation of the Middle East.
