My concern when it comes to strikes is that we have had very bad experiences. I was in the session of the Security Council when I was still ambassador there, after the international community decided to go to Afghanistan. I remember that one of the talks we got there was about how the Americans were going to be strongly in Kabul, and that if the Taliban were in the mountains, they were going to strike. I remember that I was one of the people defending against the idea and saying, “No, it's not going to happen that way, because if you strike there, you are going to kill innocents and you are going to make the Taliban more popular.”
It's very slippery. It has to be done in a way.... It was mentioned several times about having boots on the ground, local boots, but the right boots.... This is going to take a long, long time. I'm not convinced that what is being done now with the Iraqi army, which is sectarian, is the right thing.