US Foreign Policy Needs to be ‘Balanced’ Between ‘Great Exertions’ and ‘Retreat’
Zalmay Khalilzad served as the US Ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and
the United Nations in the George W. Bush administration. A member of the
Atlantic Council’s Board of Directors, Khalilzad has recently authored
an insightful and widely praised memoir—The Envoy. In a wide-ranging interview with the New Atlanticist’s
Ashish Kumar Sen, he discussed the lessons learned from the US
experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, prospects for peace with the
Taliban, and US diplomacy in a post-Iran nuclear deal Middle East, among
other issues.
"The right lesson to learn from Iraq and Afghanistan is that big projects such as these two need to be done very selectively and rarely, we also need to recognize that we might have to do them again,” said Zalmay Khalilzad, a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq. Khalilzad is a member of the Atlantic Council’s Board of Directors. (Atlantic Council/Victoria Langton)
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