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nothing would happen until he accepted the

this could lead to confusion. Before leaving for the G8

only informal discussions would be held until and unless a way

saying that any substantive talks needed his involvement

and asked us to keep working in his absence.

we didn’t want to feel we’d left any stone unturned. At about 11 pm

with Clinton’s words of advice still on my mind

it was an inherently skewed formula: it would involve

had approached Dennis Ross with a new proposal: that we ask Arafat to

Maliki accused his rival of sectarianism and

Allawi nominated two people for the Defense Ministry

and seems in no hurry to give them up any time

he personally still controls the two jobs in a

I had to accept that — no less so than before

this was a failure of specific intelligence warnings. But it went deeper

or of their wish to see an end to Israel’s

” he said. Even when those in power used unimaginably punitive tools:

things might be different.” But he said the

in the Middle East and beyond. “If we were

he cited examples of more than a dozen broadly similar