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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran

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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (13206)11/19/2006 1:57:00 PM
From: Elmer Flugum  Read Replies (2) of 22250
 
Kissinger says Iraq isn't ripe for democracy

latimes.com

Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, a frequent advisor to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, has concluded that the United States must choose between stability and democracy in Iraq — and that democracy, for now, is out of reach.

"I think that's reality. I think that was true from the beginning," Kissinger said in an interview last week.

"Iraq is not a nation in the historic sense," he said, pointing to the ferocity of the conflicts among Kurds and Sunni and Shiite Arabs. "The evolution of democracy … usually has to go through a phase in which a nation [is] born. And by attempting to skip that process, our valid goals were distorted into what we are now seeing."
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