"we just have to think better"
From Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, June 28.
Marty Moss-Coane: Do you think though that there’s anything that can be done to promote unity in Iraq, or is it frankly too late?
Ambassador Michael Bell: It’s too late. And I know that that’s difficult for us in the West to accept, because we were brought up with an—I think particularly in the United States—with a belief system that says, you know we can solve it, there’s got to be a way, somehow we will find that way, we just have to to think better, we just have to coordinate better and we will find it. I think, you know I’ve spent thirty-plus years dealing with the Middle East and sometimes there just is no solution. And it’s hard to accept, but that’s the reality.
He’s captured something that the citizen-viewers have been slowly coming to grips with.
Bell has served as Canada’s ambassador to Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and he chaired the donor committee of the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq.
Listen to the interview on WHYY’s Radio Times
Read Bell’s opinion piece from the Toronto Globe & Mail
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