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Right now the policy in Iraq is to stay until and unless the national military is capable of waging war on its own. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Right now the policy in Iraq is to stay until and unless the national military is capable of waging war on its own.

Iraq

Iraq's Sunnis perceive the 'national' army and police force as a Shiite-Kurdish militia on steroids. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Iraq's Sunnis perceive the 'national' army and police force as a Shiite-Kurdish militia on steroids.

Army

Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq.

They say we have to be perfect at everything at the same time. We can't afford to be perfect at everything.... There's a fixed size of the pie. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

They say we have to be perfect at everything at the same time. We can't afford to be perfect at everything.... There's a fixed size of the pie.

Although it is being fought at low intensity for now, it could easily escalate if Americans and Iraqis make the wrong choices. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Although it is being fought at low intensity for now, it could easily escalate if Americans and Iraqis make the wrong choices.

It represents a misreading of the nature of the problem. When we make these forces stronger, we make the underlying problem worse, not better. We're throwing gas on the political fire. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

It represents a misreading of the nature of the problem. When we make these forces stronger, we make the underlying problem worse, not better. We're throwing gas on the political fire.

Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it.

I think it is probably a good general description of American foreign policy that we don't have as much control as we think we do. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

I think it is probably a good general description of American foreign policy that we don't have as much control as we think we do.

Given that strengthening a military they view as their enemy strengthens their resistance creates political problems -- the first thing we need to do is slow down, rather than speed up. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Given that strengthening a military they view as their enemy strengthens their resistance creates political problems -- the first thing we need to do is slow down, rather than speed up.

Unfortunately the nature of this conflict is that we're going to have to stay there longer than we would like. - Stephen Biddle Quotes

Unfortunately the nature of this conflict is that we're going to have to stay there longer than we would like.

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