Reuters quotes Rafik Hariri Center Senior Fellow Frederic Hof on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s likely victory in his country’s upcoming elections:
“The choice for the administration right now is whether to accept this sort of de facto uneasy partition of Syria, or to try to do something to roll it back,” said Fred Hof, a former State Department special envoy for Syria who is now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center.