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# Quote of the week
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19032/
- Published: 2006-11-20T16:11:01.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:36.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**by Jessica Reed**"If you mean by 'military victory' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible"- [Henry Kissinger](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900287%5Fpf.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) on [military victory](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-kissinger19nov19,1,5247887.story?coll=la-news-a%5Fsection&ref=opendemocracy.net) in Iraq.  

Thoughts?