Iraq Debate: Jessica Mathews opening remarks

Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, delivers the second opening statement, and the first against the resolution. Ms. Mathews argues that many U.S. policymakers are mistakenly viewing Iraq from the lens of the U.S. war effort. We need to see Iraq in terms of their own culture and history. We will see that what is going on in Iraq is typical of any place where a political vacuum has been created, which occurred when Saddam Hussein was removed from power. Al Qaida in Iraq is just a sideshow to the larger political struggle in Iraq. There is no military solution in Iraq; only a political solution.

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