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The Question Petraeus Can't Answer
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But when I asked him if there was a better answer to the question Lugar raised -- is there such a strategy? -- his answer was murky. He began with the comment that "there has to be a regional approach," and he went off the record for a time, then came back with many references to Iran.
When a colleague asked if we had a plausible strategy for engaging or persuading or coercing Iran to cooperate in that elusive regional solution, the answer was: We're working on it at many levels.
Meantime, Petraeus's suggestion is that we focus "less on an exit strategy from Iraq and more on an engagement strategy."
I think the answer to the challenge Lugar raises will have to come from the presidential candidates, not the general. It certainly won't come from this president.
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