Progress In Iraq Has Always Been About

Iraq Has Gone From Being On The Brink To Being On The Mend, And It Clearly Has Some Big Advantages.

Pakistan Are Very Keen To Carry Out The Operations Themselves. And There's Significant Effort On The Part Of The Us And Other Countries To Provide Assistance That Can Enable Pakistan To Do Just That.

Afghanistan Has Other Enormous Challenges As Well, Including A Political System That Is Still Very Much Developing, Although There Has Been Some Progress In The Past Several Years.

The Job Of The Leader Is To Get The Big Ideas Right.

I Am Neither A Pessimist Nor An Optimist. I Am A Realist, And The Reality In Iraq Is That It Has Been Very Hard And It Continues To Be Hard.