In an 'Operational Leadership Experiences' interview for the Combat Studies Institute of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on September 19, 2008, "Maj. Chad Quayle, who advised an Iraqi battalion in south Baghdad during the [troop] surge, said that he 'got consistent answers' from Iraqi officers about the political future of their country. 'When you got to know them and they'd be honest with you, every single one of them thought that the whole notion of democracy and representative government in Iraq was absolutely ludicrous.' "
– Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, 324