03/28/2023
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"I think you can argue that a lot of the problems we're having in Iraq now are because of the Maliki government's failure to be inclusive."
"I certainly hope you will counsel the White House to think seriously about what I would consider a modest additional investment to maintain the tremendous gains that have been had."
"Yes, we need to be intellectually honest that anything we do--anything we do--is going to provoke a Russian response."
"Graham Allison, from Harvard, called it the 'Thucydides Trap,' wherein 12 of 16 instances in world history where you had a rapidly rising power confronting an established power ended in war."