Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
“When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.”
“Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.”