The change in strategy is viewed by some as tacit recognition that the situation in Iraq is unsustainable. 'This is as close as anyone will come to acknowledging that it [the current security measures] is not working,' a US administration official told the New York Times. When asked about the new strategy, Rice said that the administration now realised that it was in a new phase of the occupation (MEED 3:10:03).
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