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...decent life is to escape altogether. Since the school year ended in June, thousands of families have been heading to safer parts of the country, like the Kurdish north, where an economic boom carries the promise of jobs. Those who can afford it are going abroad, mainly to Syria and Jordan. "The middle class is evaporating," says Iyad Allawi, who served as Iraq's interim Prime Minister in 2004 and part of '05. "Every Middle Eastern country I go to, they tell me immigration from Iraq is rising fast...
TIME: DO YOU HAVE A COMMITMENT FROM ISRAEL THAT IT WON'T EXPAND THE WAR INTO SYRIA OR IRAN...
RICE: The capabilities of Hizballah were more extensive than people realized because they have used the last 10 years since the cease-fire to build those capabilities. And the enhanced relationship that they have had with Iran and Syria for financing and for technology, clearly, has improved their capabilities. It's very hard to know the capabilities of a terrorist organization when it burrows into a population, when it has free rein and free run of southern Lebanon because there's a vacuum there...
TIME: THIS ADMINISTRATION TALKS TO PEOPLE LIKE THE CHINESE, WHO DO THINGS THE U.S. DOESN'T LIKE. SO WHY NOT TALK TO SYRIA, HAMAS, HIZBALLAH...
When it comes to Syria, it's not as if we haven't talked. We have a chargé [d'affaires] in Syria. Colin Powell went to Syria. Bill Burns went to Syria multiple times. It's not a problem that people don't talk to Syria. It's that Syria doesn't appear to listen or respond. In the case of Lebanon, inviting Syria back into Lebanese affairs--as if Syria is some kind of broker of peace when it occupied the country brutally for 30 years--is grotesque...