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Things covertly, quietly that were very helpful to us because we both hated the taliban and al qaeda. now, in the case of iraq you re absolutely right, we and iran share some very important interests. neither of us wants to see iraq continue in the state of civil war. both of us would like to pull it out. that creates at least the basis for moving forward. the one thing that we have to remember, though, is once we get beyond those minimal interests that we share we have very different interests. iran would like to see iraq iranian aligned, shia dominated, may not care whether it s a democracy or not. we very much want to see iraq western aligned and democratic. so we ve got some basic areas of agreement that we could forge some tacit cooperation. that may make things possible. but we need to recognize that once we get beyond those middle interests we do have some sharp difference tos too. kenneth pollack, thank you. thank you for having me. ....