Stephen Biddle Quotes

"Iraq's Sunnis perceive the 'national' army and police force as a Shiite-Kurdish militia on steroids."

"Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it."

"Unfortunately the nature of this conflict is that we're going to have to stay there longer than we would like."