I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq. - Thomas Friedman

I think we're in the end game there, in the next three to six months, Bob. We've got for the first time an Iraqi government elected on the basis of an Iraqi constitution. Either they're going to produce the kind of inclusive consensual government that we aspire to in the near term, in which case America will stick with it, or they're not, in which case I think the bottom's going to fall out.

What Biden is trying to achieve is equivalent of having a Rubic's cube and trying to align all the colors on the same side

China's going to have a free press.... Oh, China's leaders don't know it yet, but they are being pushed straight in that direction.