id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pst.000066743903 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Iraq after the surge : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 2, 3, 8, and 10, 2008 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.110-757 2009 .txt text/plain 251691 14769 64 ones that are in Kurdish north, that are economically and politically doing OK, to the incoherent situation in Basra, where a central government holds sway, where electricity, oil production, security, health care—there's no place in Iraq where that government The best way forward for the United States is a strategy of "conditional engagement," in which we use what leverage we have-military, political, and economicto encourage political accommodation in Iraq in the near term and establish sustainable stability over the medium to long term.26 Under this strategy, the more where Iraqis have the institutions and resources they need to govern themselves justly and provide security for their country; [and] an Iraq that is a partner in the global war on terror and foundation provided by Iraq's social structures, will play a more important role in the long term than military efforts, with the exception of those required to prevent the overthrow of the Iraqi Government or the dissolution of the state. ./cache/pst.000066743903.pdf ./txt/pst.000066743903.txt