Condoleezza Rice

摘要

Tensions around Iraq had reached a fever pitch around 2006. It might have been the worst year of my professional career. It was a year in which Hamas won parliamentary elections [in the Palestinian territories]. You had the war in Lebanon. You had Iraq coming apart and the first sense that Afghanistan was not going particularly well. Obvious ly, what we were doing in Iraq was not working. I had taken a trip there in Octo ber-what I saw called into question the Iraqis' commitment to their own multi-confessional future. In a sense, I felt I had to really hold out and not back the surge until I felt comfortable we were going to be doing something different. Just put ting more American forces into a situa tion where we were trying the same strat egy seemed to me just to be a recipe for getting more Americans killed.