“Washington’s is a stop watch, where every second longer we stay in Iraq is a problem; the Iraqi Shiite-led government’s watch often seems broken, and you have to regularly tap it to get it to work; and the Iraqi Sunni watch always wants to go in reverse — back to Saddam’s day, when Sunnis were in charge.”
– New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, on the analogy U.S. Army officers use in talking about Iraq
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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