What I absolutely don't understand is just at the moment wh… - Thomas Friedman

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What I absolutely don't understand is just at the moment when we finally have a UN-approved Iraqi-caretaker government made up of—I know a lot of these guys—reasonably decent people and more than reasonably decent people, everyone wants to declare it's over. I don't get it. It might be over in a week, it might be over in a month, it might be over in six months, but what's the rush? Can we let this play out, please?

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Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist and columnist who joined The New York Times in 1981.

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