We're going to have to face the fact that there are strong centrifugal forces in Iraq that have the potential of tearing the country apart.
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The most important force in Iraq for breaking up the country and preventing a strong central government isn't the insurgency, it's the Kurds, and the second most important force is the Shiites.
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The Bonn Agreement, which was negotiated four years ago, has been a remarkably successful road map toward Afghanistan's political evolution, in which all of its benchmarks have been met more or less on schedule.
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