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...Security in Iraq cannot be achieved solely by dominating military targets. A more effective approach would focus on addressing the emotional roots of violence and cultivating conditions for peace. Two of the most fundamental emotional concerns for parties in a conflict are autonomy, the freedom to make decisions without imposition, and affiliation, a sense of belonging and connection. Depending on the extent to which these concerns are addressed, people can be driven toward cooperative or adversarial behavior...
...arena that almost always seems to reward simplicity over complexity. He is asking something from Americans rather than just promising things to them - another formulation long out of vogue. "For we have a choice in this country," he said. "We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the O.J. trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina, or as fodder for the nightly news ... We can do that," he goes...
...very impressive campaign," he said of Obama. But the Illinois Senator is arguing, Clinton said, that "if you were part of making good things happen in the '90s, and stopping bad things from happening in this decade... then you are part of a culture of conflict, and you are so yesterday. So the only way we can have a good President is to make a completely new beginning...
...political viability of the war The mood in Congress has changed a great deal, as is always the case when our sons and daughters are deployed in harm's way. The only thing for certain about combat and conflict is the uncertainty of that process. We certainly went through a difficult time after Baghdad fell, or particularly I guess after Saddam Hussein was captured, when the insurgency rose and the violence rose and, in fact, we lost some control for a period of time...
...improvement in relations with the U.S.? As the Leader[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] pointed out as well, no one said that there will be conflict between us forever. Not at all. It is not reasonable politics to say we don't ever want relations. First we should note that it wasn't us who broke relations with the U.S. It was the U.S. who broke relations with us. But we believe that now that we want to reestablish relations we have to do it in a clear and reasonable framework. We sat down at one table and talked about Iraq...