Talking With The Enemy
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Part of what's bringing these people to the negotiating table is their
fear that Iraq's insurgency is being taken over by jihadists.
By Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek
Aug. 8, 2005 issue - Gen. George Casey's remark last week that the
United States might begin to draw down troops in Iraq reminds me of the
words of another George almost 40 years ago. In 1966 a Republican
senator from Vermont, George Aiken, had a solution to the morass in
Vietnam: "Declare victory and get out." Casey's remarks were not in the
same vein, but the basic idea appears to be similar-redefine success
to a less demanding level. There's only one problem: the Iraqi
insurgency has not yet agreed to this plan. And if it doesn't, leaving
Iraq will mean that a large part of the country will remain highly
unstable and serve as a training ground for jihadist terror groups.
Avoiding that outcome must be the minimum definition of success in
Iraq. The good news is there is a real prospect of achieving this new
(more modest) goal.
Fareed Zakaria
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