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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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