In December 2008, he wrote that declarations of either victory or defeat in Iraq in 2003 were premature, and that the liberation of Iraq was a foreign policy success.
2008年12月，他写道，宣告2003年伊拉克战争的胜利或失败为时尚早，伊拉克的解放（英语：2003 invasion of Iraq）是外交政策的成功。