Peter Rodman
Peter Rodman
Peter Warren Rodmanwas a lawyer, government official and foreign policy expert...
face people productive proximity talks
Proximity talks can be enormously useful. There are people who don't want to talk face to face and who, when they talk face to face, they don't have anything productive to say to each other.
battle coalition forces iraqis less precisely reason space turn visible
One of the reason we want to turn over battle space to Iraqis is precisely so coalition forces can be less visible and less exposed.
fight knows
We see it that the fight is still on and he knows that,
fight knows relationship
We see this as, the fight is still on, and he knows that, ... Operationally, our relationship with them is good.
hope separate
We hope this will separate them from the extremists.
forces iraqi large performed security severe
We think that by and large the Iraqi security forces have performed well under a very severe test.