
From Yahoo News:
COMBAT OUTPOST RABIY, Iraq - Even in the chin-high piles of roadside rubble, the crumbled cinderblock and the eerily empty streets of this neighborhood in western Mosul, America's top military officer sees hope. But he also sees peril and an urgent need to get the economy going — jobs, services, some semblance of regular life.
"The security is there, it's much better, it's going to continue to evolve," Adm. Mike Mullen said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview after a walking tour of this recent combat zone. But if local political reform falters "or the economy doesn't get going — and here the two are linked — then I'm not sure that security makes that much difference."
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My Comment: Key phrase ..... Iraq needs time to stabilize. After decades of tyrannical rule, wars and oppression ..... Iraq will need some time. This is the understatement of the day.