The New York Times in September 2012 reported that “the Obama administration has fallen frustratingly short” in some of the three American goals in Iraq - to leave behind a stable representative government, avoid a power vacuum that neighboring states and terrorists could exploit and maintain influence so Iraq would be a partner or, at a minimum, not an opponent in the Middle East due to political and ethnic tensions.
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