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April 28, 2006

Time Running Out In Iraq, Diamond Tells Samford Audience

"...'I cannot tell you with conviction that I think there's still time for anything to work,' Diamond said. 'I fear it is simply too late. But I know that the stakes for the United States are so great that we cannot resign ourselves to failure, collapse, humiliation and disintegration in Iraq'..."

Larry Diamond didn't have much good news to relate about the U.S. war in Iraq when he spoke on campus Monday, April 24 as part of Samford's Rushton Lecture Series. The war has become "the most complex, the most vexing, the most high-stakes foreign policy challenge" of his lifetime, he said. His analysis isn't easily dismissed as partisan grumbling.
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