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Terrorists from continuing to roll up territory. this relatively limited involvement can do that. sometimes in foreign policy, you have ambitious goals what you want to achieve. even that relatively modest goal may turn out to be sufficiently ambitious for us. the sort of announcement made this week is consistent with trying to keep the middle east from going over the cliff rather that trying to remake the middle east in our image. richard haas, very, very interesting conversation. thank you so much. thank you. now from syria to iraq. the united states is talking about putting a handful of troops in syria, but it already has thousands in iraq. so how should we think about the united states past and future involvement in iraq? you ll hear from the deputy secretary of state tony lincoln next. ....
People will make their judgments about the war whether it was wise to get into it, the way we got into it, the way we prosecuted it. by the time the obama administration came into office, that was an inheritance that we had to deal with. we were determined to make the best possible future we could for iraq and live up to that responsibility. that s what we tried to do. i think there were moments in the last years when you could see and we can still see way for iraq. it depends on the iraqs ....
That s what happened. and the body politic was clear on that. the only group that really wanted us to stay were the kurds. sunnis, shia, they didn t believe that every step along the way starting with president bush and then president obama. every step along the way, the iraqis didn t believe we would get out of the cities, we did. they believe we would end our combat mission, we did. they didn t believe we would leave at the end of 2011. in my judgment at least, we actually had to leave in order to reengage later and to get back in. to what extent do you think you do have a coherent, functioning partner in iraq today? we have an increasingly functioning partner in iraq, but it s a it s a work in progress. it was important to have a partner on the ground because it ....
Sanctuary in syria. the one part of iraq where things have been much more difficult is ambar province because of this conflict. what s changed is this was a problem. to bring them in. to populate the beginnings of the national guard and bring more of them into the iraqi army itself. to get more control that have shia militia in them to to stabilize areas that were newly liberated. we re seeing that start, let me emphasize start. ....