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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Cogito who wrote (49088)2/13/2008 5:00:34 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 543144
 
If the Iraqis were unified and moderate, there could be a good chance of knitting together a successful state. But the three factions barely get along, the national parliament gets very little done, the police is largely a militia for one group, etc.

We can't solve those problems for the Iraqis, as much as we have tried. Right now we are garrisoning the streets and trying to get the locals to behave. We could keep doing that indefinitely and not achieve more than keeping a lid on.

We need a better plan than that for the next five years.
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