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| | The Century Foundation Taking Note |
 | | Western nations are split on the priority of principles and the handling of issues, and it is these nations, with some help from the UN, that will once again have to decide how to balance them. |
 | | The Secretary-General of the United Nations should convene the five permanent members of the Security Council and the six countries that border Iraq (Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia) in a contact group that hammers out for the Security Council a coordinated strategy for dealing with the internal parties. |
 | | This effort as always is beset by competing principles including the primacy of sovereignty, self-determination, the protection of minorities, and the use of force, as well as a situation of competing nationalisms. |
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