2006, ISBN: 9781234638634

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 38 pages. LC Number: KF26 . F6 2006p OCLC Number: (OCoLC)128259561 Subject: Iraq -- Politics and government -- … Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 38 pages. LC Number: KF26 . F6 2006p OCLC Number: (OCoLC)128259561 Subject: Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-. Excerpt: . . . in the most difficult circumstance, actually, the two most difficult circumstances, Afghanistan and Iraq. I want to thank you and I am sure if Senator Jack Reed were here, he would--he probably already has extended his thanks to you and to your staff in Baghdad. We put a heavy burden on them and they got us in and out of Basra and Fallujah and Baghdad and I know you know better than anyone that that is not an easy task for them and I just want to publicly thank you and your first rate staff that is there. I might point out, which everyone already knows, but these are civilians who were there at some considerable risk and I think we should recognize not only their significant professional input in terms of the diplomacy and foreign policy, just of personal courage and I want to acknowledge that. We are fortunate, as I indicated, to have you and your staff in Baghdad and I would like to, Mr. Ambassador, talk to you about what it seems to be, for me, parallel realities. If you spend time as you have more than anyone, with our military and your staff, you cant help but come out of Iraq other than impressed with the job both the military and the State Department personnel are doing under very difficult circumstances. But for all the achievements, the larger reality is this, in my impression: That Iraq and the success of our mission there remains a prisoner of a terrible and growing violence and a lack of a sufficient plan--coordinated plan with the new government, as well--to stop it. I still dont see a clear strategy for victory in Iraq. I do see a strategy for preventing things from outright defeat but I dont--I did not come away with a clear strategy for victory. As you have acknowledged, sectarian violence has trumped the insurgency and foreign terrorists as the main security threat in Iraq, although . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<