Leadership Quote by Adnan Pachachi

The sentence is diplomacy trying to do two jobs at once: acknowledge harm without detonating a political relationship. Pachachi’s phrasing is careful to the point of choreography. “Some troops” narrows culpability; “of course” signals that this narrowing is meant to be accepted as common sense, not debated. That little verbal nudge matters: it invites the listener to move on from anger toward administration, from outrage toward “useful” steps.

The subtext is that the real crisis isn’t only what the troops did, but what the occupation (or allied presence) is becoming in the eyes of the public. Pachachi is an Iraqi politician speaking into a context where legitimacy is a scarce resource: any foreign force needs cooperation from local leaders, and local leaders need distance from foreign abuses. His insistence that the offenders are “not representative of the majority” is less a statistical claim than a political firewall. It protects the possibility of continued engagement while also protecting Iraqi intermediaries from being seen as collaborators with an indiscriminate military.

The line also exposes a hard truth about power: an apology is being framed not as moral reckoning, but as a tool. “Useful,” “helped to some extent” are transactional words, calibrated to what can be admitted publicly. It’s a quiet indictment of the occupying side’s blindness to symbolism. In conflicts like Iraq, the apology isn’t just etiquette; it’s counterinsurgency. Pachachi is saying that legitimacy lives in gestures, and that refusing them creates enemies faster than any speech can fix.