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...replacing it with a democratically elected government. Expecting to see a warming of relations as a result, Iran instead found itself named to President Bush's "Axis of Evil." The Iranians are unlikely to move to help the U.S. in Iraq until they see that such assistance carries broader diplomatic rewards - or unless the situation in Iraq looks so perilous to their interests that they are forced to put their conflict with the U.S. to one side...
...that broader strategic contest that hangs over the talks between the two sides in Iraq. Absent a "grand bargain" in which Iran and the U.S. find a formula for peaceful and stable coexistence throughout the region, occasional and very public encounters in Iraq are unlikely to produce much progress...
...Middle East. "I wouldn't just use our military tool, not just our diplomatic tools, but our economic tools, our cultural tools, all the tools in our tool box to keep us safe," he said. He also took the opportunity to stress one of his campaign's broader themes about the future. ""When I talk about hope, the Washington press corps gets kinda of cynical, 'that's so naïve,'" Obama said. "'People with experience don't talk about hope. He's a hope peddler, he's a hope monger...
...Zawahiri, even though the links between the Qaeda leaders and the jihadi shock troops in Iraq are tenuous. The violence perpetrated by al-Qaeda in Iraq helps the organization raise money and draw new recruits. The declassified NIE summary says al-Qaeda in Iraq helps al-Qaeda "energize the broader Sunni extremist community, raise resources and recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for homeland attacks...
...neither will the broader jihadist threat in Iraq or elsewhere vanish when we leave. Most plans for a reduced U.S. mission in Iraq - including the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, headed by James Baker III and Lee Hamilton - call for retaining a small counterterrorism force there. "No one is going to complain about going after an al-Qaeda target," says Anthony Zinni, former head of U.S. Central Command, who advocates a gradual disengagement from the sectarian conflict. Even so, the U.S. needs to be realistic about what 75,000 U.S. troops can achieve. "I want to blow...