US/IRAQ: Washington surveys bleak strategic options
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- Constant strategic adjustments
- Grim leitmotifs
- Unrealistic political expectations
- Failed timetables
- Positive spin
- Disastrous trends
- Sinking government
- Sectarian maelstrom
- Regional conflict
- Fleeting opportunity
- Internal administration initiatives
- Iraq Study Group
- No good options
- Khalilzad the magician?
- Rapid withdrawal disaster
- 'Least bad' option
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