Vali Nasr famous 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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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.
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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.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.
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Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia
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During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.
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To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
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I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
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I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.
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The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has
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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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