U.S. Must Focus on More Than Iraq

• By Rep. Adam Smith
• Special to Roll Call
• May 16, 2008, 12:23 p.m.

For all of the challenges in Iraq right now, we cannot lose track of the fact that it is but one piece of a much larger, more complicated struggle. We must also understand both our limited ability to force a given outcome in Iraqi efforts to forge a post-Saddam government, and the reality that many parts of that power struggle do not relate directly to our own larger struggle against al-Qaida and groups that support their violent totalitarian ideology.