Vali Nasr quotes
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“What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.”
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“A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham has constructed a detailed account of how the Brotherhood confronts the challenges before it, and why and when it embraces change. Everyone concerned with the future of Egypt should read this book.”
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“My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.”
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“I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn't matter to American geostrategy as much as we think.”
-- Vali NasrSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.”
-- Vali NasrSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia”
Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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“Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.”
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“To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.”
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Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”
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