re: #381 Clutch

From the BBC:

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Mr Obama and his advisors are reviewing the US strategy on Afghanistan, and have looked at what has worked in Iraq.

“There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani region,” he said on board Air Force One.

Referring to the US policy in Iraq, he said: “If you talk to General [David] Petraeus, I think he would argue that part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists, but who were willing to work with us because they had been completely alienated by the tactics of al-Qaeda in Iraq.”

But Afghanistan could be a different situation.
“The situation in Afghanistan is, if anything, more complex,” he told the newspaper.

“You have a less governed region, a history of fierce independence among tribes.

“Those tribes are multiple and sometimes operate at cross purposes, and so figuring all that out is going to be much more of a challenge.”

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