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The Iraq Stalemate

Responding to Congressional testimony by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Director of Carnegie's Middle East Program, Marina Ottaway, writes in the Guardian that despite success in dampening down violence in Iraq, the surge has done little to improve the political stalemate both in Iraq and the U.S. that continues to cripple substantive progress.

by Marina Ottaway
published by
the Guardian
 on April 10, 2008

Source: the Guardian

Responding to Congressional testimony by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Director of Carnegie's Middle East Program, Marina Ottaway, writes in the Guardian that despite success in dampening down violence in Iraq, the surge has done little to improve the political stalemate both in Iraq and the U.S. that continues to cripple substantive progress.

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