Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq. -Stephen Biddle

 

Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq.


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Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it.

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They say we have to be perfect at everything at the same time. We can't afford to be perfect at everything.... There's a fixed size of the pie.

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I think it is probably a good general description of American foreign policy that we don't have as much control as we think we do. -Stephen Biddle
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Right now the policy in Iraq is to stay until and unless the national military is capable of waging war on its own.

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Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq.

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Although it is being fought at low intensity for now, it could easily escalate if Americans and Iraqis make the wrong choices. -Stephen Biddle
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It represents a misreading of the nature of the problem. When we make these forces stronger, we make the underlying problem worse, not better. We're throwing gas on the political fire.

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