The days and weeks ahead will severely test this new government, and the solution to Iraq's current challenges will take years, not months, to overcome.

A political solution is required.

You have a weak government or no government or several factions claiming to be government. You have a vacuum which is very favorable ground on which drugs and terrorism will grow,

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.