Larry Diamond Quotes

The key for a long time in Iraq to stabilization . . . has been to pull in significant elements of Sunnis near the insurgency into the political process. Much of the violence after that was entrenched or reinforced by the elections when the Sunnis were pressed to the margins.

- Larry Diamond

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