“We may get there someday … but that's not where we are now.” Crocker said he considers Negroponte's five-year estimate from 2005 “breathtakingly short.” "These processes take a long time and no amount of good ideas generated from Washington can be dispatched by FedEx to Iraq and laid down in a template and made to work" he said. In response to an audience member's question about recent terrorist attacks in Iraq, Crocker said the targets appear to have shifted from sectarian populations to government symbols. Full Article at Houston Chronicle