A year from now, it will be of interest whether you have more (able to operate independently) or not. |
But we expect this process to resume. |
don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful. |
I doubt that very much, I don't think that is what the issue is, and... |
Maybe he was speaking to his people, who would like to see the violence subside, |
Not only do I not see civil war happening, I don't think they will succeed in derailing this political process. The next few days will tell if I am right. |
Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues. |
One of the reason we want to turn over battle space to Iraqis is precisely so coalition forces can be less visible and less exposed. |
Proximity talks can be enormously useful. There are people who don't want to talk face to face and who, when they talk face to face, they don't have anything productive to say to each other. |
The stakes are enormous, the U.S. has a strategy, and we believe it's the right one. |
They're good, but ... the Taliban do still exist and they are capable of doing harm, |
Today, we would calculate the operational challenges in light of new military capabilities and technologies China has acquired, just as we have always adjusted to new realities. |
We hope this will separate them from the extremists. |
We must prove that (economic) institutions can work and improve the lives of Iraqis at the fundamental level. |
We saw three successful elections last year... In that success of those elections, you can see the gravitational pole working on the Sunni Arab population pulling them into the political process. |