343 The Iraqi Study Group Report

I’ve been following the reaction to the Iraqi Study Group report (full .pdf) over the past few days. It’s been hard to escape. My favorite responses so far have been from the Iraqi press:

International conferences cannot decide the fate of the political process in Iraq. Rather, Iraqis, who have made immense sacrifices for the political process, can alone determine the fate of their country and draw up its policies.
—Ali Khlayf, Al-Adalah (Shia), Baghdad

and again:

A change cannot happen in isolation from the Iraqi national will. The Americans are incapable of making a change outside the framework of Iraqi national interest which is defined by the Iraqis rather than any other party.
—Ad-Dustur, Baghdad

More reactions from the Middle Eastern press translated here.

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