When Resolve Turns Reckless

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Author(s)	John Kerry
Source	The Washington Post
Date	December 24, 2006
URL	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122201182.html
Quote	"You could put 100,000 more troops in tomorrow and you're only going to add to the number of casualties until Iraqis sit down together at a bargaining table and compromise. The barrel of a gun can't answer the question of how you force Iraqi nationalism to trump sectarian loyalty."

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