Ted Koppel Tells Shocking Truth About Iraq and War on Terror

This is one blog article (from Newsbusters) that's worth reading: Ted Koppel Tells Shocking Truth About Iraq and War on Terror. The article concerns a conversation that Ted Koppel had with Tim Russert on Meet the Press.

Excerpt:

Koppel: I made a little note here of something that Ambassador Khalilzad said to you [Tim Russert] a moment ago. He said, “The region will not be stable until Iraq is stabilized.” It’s the one thing nobody talks about. Everyone is concerned about the United States being in the middle of a civil war inside Iraq. But they forget about the fact that if U.S. troops were to pull out of Iraq, that civil war could become a regional war between Sunnis and Shia. And the region, just in case anyone has forgotten, is the Persian Gulf, where we get most of our oil, and, I’ve talked about this before, natural gas. So, the idea of pulling out of there and letting the region, letting the national civil war expand into a regional civil war, something the United States cannot allow to happen.

SOURCE: Newsbusters: 11 MARCH 2007: Ted Koppel Tells Shocking Truth About Iraq and War on Terror