"In terms of regional security, Iraq will have taken concrete steps to redress decades of mistrust and mutual suspicion with its neighbors. Bilateral arrangements and programs will eventually have provided the basis for noteworthy multilateral initiatives. (This year, we coined the term "rock soup diplomacy" to describe this process.) We envision that in 2025, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will implement a multilateral agreement to pursue greater transparency in military affairs. Eventually, a multi-dimensional regional security organization (perhaps a trimmer version of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) may emerge to address such common regional security issues as border security, terrorism, proliferation and refugees." Raleigh
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A veritable Paean to Neocon Jacobinism, could it be more full throated and prophetic? Is this guy a foreign service officer? Sooo, if everything turns out exactly as current US policy wants to to be, then we win it all!
Grand, unfortunately nothing really develops this well. Let's hear some alternate scenarios. pl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102206113.html
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