An exit strategy based on Iraqi nationalism
Limiting the damage
by William Pfaff, International Herald Tribune

The outline of a policy to get the United States out of Iraq, limiting further damage to Americans and Iraqis, is now becoming visible.

Unlike proposals that some American analysts and former diplomats have made for dividing Iraq into ethnic or religious federal entities - which the United States today is scarcely in a position to attempt - this plan would keep the country together.

It relies on Iraqi national interest and Iraqi nationalism.

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