By Sarah Meyer
Index Research
AP: "Do you feel that the new government will have a honeymoon, or will it be immediately faced with challenges?"
KHALILZAD: “I think it will be faced immediately with challenges because the terrorists are not going to go away, they're going to persist in their effort to promote a sectarian conflict. They want Iraq to fail, but Iraq in itself is not important for them. Iraq is one theater in a global war; that they want to provoke a war of civilization.”
One only needs to make a small addition to this statement for it to make sense.
“I think it will be faced immediately with challenges because the” US/UK “terrorists are not going to go away, they're going to persist in their effort to promote a sectarian conflict. They want Iraq to fail, but Iraq in itself is not important for them. Iraq is one theater in a global war; that they want to provoke a war of civilization.”
The url to this short comment is: http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/05/khalilzad-ap-interview.html
Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in Sussex, UK.
Her email is: sarahmeyer@freedom255.com
