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...presidential contenders, although the panel was seriously considering a shorter list of candidates at the time.—Aditi Banga, Lois E. Beckett, Nicholas M. Ciarelli, Stephanie S. Garlow, Claire M. Guehenno, Katherine M. Gray, Laurence H. M. Holland, Clifford M. Marks, Brittney L. Moraski, Rachel L. Pollack, Nathan C. Strauss, and Kevin Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...Lois E. Beckett, Nicholas M. Ciarelli, Stephanie S. Garlow, Claire M. Guehenno, Katherine M. Gray, Clifford M. Marks, Brittney L. Moraski, Rachel L. Pollack, and Kevin Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story...
...second cause for the shift is Iraq. The country's dissolution has reduced the U.S.'s leverage in the region, emboldened Iran and alienated the U.S.'s traditional Sunni allies. "They've been reticent to provide real support," says Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution. "They think we've created a government that is nothing but a façade for a bunch of vicious Shi'i militias." Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month that the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is on "borrowed time." Rice says now that "Iraqis will have to decide whether...
...troops already in Iraq, it's highly unlikely the White House would triple that number. But nor will the U.S. be able walk away from Iraq, even if it collapses. Instead, the study recommends a "baker's dozen" military and diplomatic options to contain the spillover, although Pollack admits these are only the "least bad options we have, and very hard to make work...
...were depressed as hell as we were doing this work," admits Kenneth Pollack, a co-author of the report. "It was not a fun project." Nearly all past attempts by outsiders to suppress civil wars have failed. The ones that succeeded - Bosnia, for example - required a ratio of 20 armed peacekeepers per 1,000 locals. In Iraq that would mean an international security force of about 450,000 troops, and that's excluding Kurdistan, which hopefully would remain stable...