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Iraq Report Details Political Hurdles and Future Options
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 06, 2008 10:59am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, April 6, 2008 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 6, 2008; Page A21
A new assessment of U.S. policy in Iraq by the same experts who advised the original Iraq Study Group concludes that political progress is "so slow, halting and superficial" and political fragmentation "so pronounced" that the United States is no closer to being able to leave Iraq than it was a year ago.
The experts were reassembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace, which convened the congressionally mandated Iraq Study Group, a high-level panel that assessed U.S. policy in Iraq and offered recommendations in 2006. The new report predicts that lasting political development could take five to 10 years of "full, unconditional commitment" to Iraq, but also cautions that future progress may not be worth the "massive" human and financial costs to the United States.
Some recent favorable developments in Iraq come from factors "that are outside U.S. control" and susceptible to rapid change, the report said, including the cease-fire by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the new Sunni Awakening councils made up of former insurgents and tribal leaders opposed to the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The report, obtained by The Washington Post, is due for release today. |
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