Here we go.
“You can’t build a whole policy on a fear of a negative, but,
boy, you’ve really got to account for it,” Mr. Crocker said Saturday
in an interview at his office in Saddam Hussein’s old Republican Palace,
now the seat of American power here. Setting out what he said was not a policy
prescription but a review of issues that needed to be weighed, the ambassador
compared Iraq’s current violence to the early scenes of a gruesome movie.“In the States, it’s like we’re in the last half of the
third reel of a three-reel movie, and all we have to do is decide we’re
done here, and the credits come up, and the lights come on, and we leave the
theater and go on to something else,” he said. “Whereas out here,
you’re just getting into the first reel of five reels,” he added,
“and as ugly as the first reel has been, the other four and a half are
going to be way, way worse.” … ..Measured solely by the legislative benchmarks, he said, “you could
not achieve any of them, and still have a situation where arguably the country
is moving in the right direction. And conversely, I think you could achieve
them all and still not be heading towards stability, security and overall
success for Iraq.”U.S.
Envoy Offers Grim Prediction on Iraq Pullout (emphasis added)
A fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves into.
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