20 Quotes by Peter Rodman

What the extremists are trying to do is to foment a civil war. But we don't see it. We don't see it succeeding.

We saw three successful elections last year... In that success of those elections, you can see the gravitational pole working on the Sunni Arab population pulling them into the political process.

We think that by and large the Iraqi security forces have performed well under a very severe test.

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

The stakes are enormous, the U.S. has a strategy, and we believe it's the right one.

Proximity talks can be enormously useful. There are people who don't want to talk face to face and who, when they talk face to face, they don't have anything productive to say to each other.

A year from now, it will be of interest whether you have more (able to operate independently) or not.

They're good, but ... the Taliban do still exist and they are capable of doing harm,

Not only do I not see civil war happening, I don't think they will succeed in derailing this political process. The next few days will tell if I am right.