WASHINTON D. C, Nov. 18th, 2008: Founder and President of the Washington D. C.-based Arab American Institute (AAI) James Zogby said he is convinced that the U. S. President Elect Barack Obama truly wants to find a responsible way out of Iraq.

"Not a rapid and precipitous withdrawal and not one that is destabilizing to the country or its most vulnerable people whom he has identified as the minority communities", added Zogby at a recent briefing on 2008 U. S Election results at the Washington Foreign Press Centre, Washington, D. C.

There is change in the culture in America with the election of Barack Obama as a president, Zogby remarked.

The rest of the world, however, "remains the same" because Obama's stated interest in moving to the Afghan and Pakistan front ... comes with some risks.

According to Zogby, the question remains whether or not those wars are winnable and to what degree a commitment, if designed as open-ended or if designed as achieving victory, is even possible.

Obama, Zogby added, "doesn't inherit a world that is now sort of back to where it was when George Bush took office." George Bush, he said, hands Obama the shovel, and the shovel is into a very, very deep hole.

"The question is will he (Obama) dig it deeper or will he find his way out", asked Zogby. (WAM/MMYS)