Zalmay Khalilzad: “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.”

There was no realistic or viable military solution to this complex conflict.

Our work in Afghanistan is not yet done. It will take several years and sustained commitment of significant resources by the United States and the international community before the country can stand on its own feet.

Securing Baghdad is vital. It's the national capital, of course. And 7 million Iraqis live there. It is the scene of a great deal of violence in Iraq. Should this government be dismissed as having failed to deal with it, Iraq will be in a…

I think it is a major opportunity because al-Zarqawi was the leader of the terrorist organization that sought a sectarian war.