Ken Pollack
Ken Pollack
Kenneth Michael "Ken" Pollack, PhD, is a noted former CIA intelligence analyst and expert on Middle East politics and military affairs. He has served on the National Security Council staff and has written several articles and books on international relations...
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It sends them the message that if you try to help the Americans re-build the country, no good will come of it, only bad. ... Obviously, any would-be Iraqi police officer or other participant in the security forces has got to consider the possibility that he will be killed.
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If the Shiite population turns against the United States and you see a large-scale resistance by the Shiites against the United States, this reconstruction effort is doomed.
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These are numbers that the United States needs to concentrate on far more intensely.
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In both cases, the United States has come into it as an outside power, and increasingly is being seen by one group as the partisan of another.