Vali Nasr quotes

Vali Nasr quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Vali Nasr

#Yugoslavia Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Balance Quotes
“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.”
-- Vali Nasr

#Book Quotes #Egypt Quotes #Challenges Quotes
“My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.”
-- Vali Nasr

#Administration Quotes
“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 Nasr

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

#Thinking Quotes #Office Quotes #Understanding Quotes
“President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.”
-- Vali Nasr

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

#President Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Afghanistan Quotes

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