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Hillary Clinton has a good idea for inspiring a greater sense of urgency among Iraqi leaders to find a political solution to their sectarian antagonism antagonism /an·tag·o·nism/ (an-tag´o-nizm) opposition or contrariety between similar things, as between muscles, medicines, or organisms; cf. antibiosis.

an·tag·o·nism
n.
. It is for us to stop supplying them with bodyguards. An Iraqi interviewed by the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland Jimmie Lee "Jim" Hoagland (born January 22, 1940) is an American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist for The Washington Post.  has an even better idea: to abolish the Green Zone entirely. Without bodyguards and a safe haven 1. Designated area(s) to which noncombatants of the United States Government's responsibility and commercial vehicles and materiel may be evacuated during a domestic or other valid emergency.
2.
 to conduct their fruitless fruit·less  
adj.
1. Producing no fruit.

2. Unproductive of success: a fruitless search. See Synonyms at futile.
 squabbling, Iraqi leaders would be forced to either settle their differences or risk being killed themselves.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Date:Mar 1, 2007
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