Yipes! ..it was clear to me—and many others—that withdrawing all our forces would endanger the fragile stability then barely holding Iraq together. —Leon Panetta time/3453840/leon-panetta-iraqi-troop/ As a former ambassador to Iraq (2007-09), do you think it was a mistake not to push hard for the Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq before the U.S. pullout? I do. We could have gotten that agreement if we had been a little more persistent, flexible, and creative. But what really cost us was the political withdrawal. We cut off high-level political engagement with Iraq when we withdrew our troops. —Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran of U.S. Middle East diplomacy washingtonpost/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/10/03/more-problems-for-the-phony-obama-clinton-iraq-narrative/ The ongoing United States military drawdown in Iraq is making it more difficult for the United Nations to carry out its operations, which range from the humanitarian to the development to the political fields, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his latest report on the country. —1 December 2010 un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36928#.VDIR1OfD87D
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