James Jeffrey
James Jeffrey
James Franklin Jeffrey is a former senior American diplomat and an expert in political, security, and energy issues in the Middle East, Turkey, Germany, and the Balkans...
frankly obvious target
They would be the first target (for suspicion) you would look at and frankly there aren't too many other obvious ones.
compact continue harder means national path striving ways work
It indicates that the path to national reconciliation and the path to a national compact that we're striving so much for has a ways to go. It means we better continue working and work harder on it.
information
I don't have any more information for you on that.
iraqi solution
There can only be an Iraqi solution to this violence.
capacity moving ourselves
We see ourselves moving away from large-scale construction... and into capacity developing.
capacity detained eventually greater iraqis legal people taking
We think that with the transition, eventually the Iraqis will be taking more of the people we've detained as the Iraqis put them into the legal system, and they need to have a greater capacity there.
costs decided draw drives focusing forms insurgency line massive midst start
We decided to draw the line and start focusing on traditional forms of aid, Certainly, that doing massive reconstruction in the midst of an insurgency drives up costs and diverts funds.