The United States should plan for a long-term stay in Iraq, Benjamin Netanyahu said. “It’s going to take longer than a matter of months,” the Israeli finance minister said Wednesday in Washington, where he was briefing senators on Israel’s economy. “To be realistic, they must stay there, keep the army there for a while,” he said.
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