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James Dobbins  Quotes
I anticipate that at least lead elements of it will be here,

—James Dobbins

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In their second term, administrations tend to be more multilateral, more pragmatic. It’s the pattern of every one, going back to Eisenhower.

—James Dobbins

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That we have had to spend several years relearning these lessons is a measure of the U.S. defense establishment’s failure to take counterinsurgency seriously after the American retreat from Vietnam.

—James Dobbins

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Defense
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Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

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We think we’ve made a lot of progress over the last year.

—James Dobbins

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Progress
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There was a real sense of solidarity among the neighboring states, a desire to see this work and send a signal to all the Afghan factions that they were no longer to receive assistance if...

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It was well known by everyone, including the US government, that the system as constructed invited kickbacks,

—James Dobbins

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Government
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We’re going to have to face the fact that there are strong centrifugal forces in Iraq that have the potential of tearing the country apart.

—James Dobbins

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Iraq
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There has been a need for the bank to be in Iraq.

—James Dobbins

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Iraq
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The main requirement is negotiation within parties — which won’t be too hard — about who should occupy the most senior positions. But then among parties, about how those positions should be distributed,

—James Dobbins

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Negotiation
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It demonstrates that we’re determined to play a continuing diplomatic, political and economic role here in assisting Afghanistan to make the transition from war to peace,

—James Dobbins

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Afghanistan
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The most important force in Iraq for breaking up the country and preventing a strong central government isn’t the insurgency, it’s the Kurds, and the second most important force is the Shiites.

—James Dobbins

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Country
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The U.S. has never been able to protect the population, and has thus never won its confidence and secured its support.

—James Dobbins

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Confidence
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Voters are not looking for creative, forward-looking candidates, they are looking for people who they think can protect them. They fall back on the familiar and the powerful. The same thing happened in postwar Bosnia,...

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People
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The Bonn Agreement, which was negotiated four years ago, has been a remarkably successful road map toward Afghanistan’s political evolution, in which all of its benchmarks have been met more or less on schedule.

—James Dobbins

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We are here, and we are here to stay, … I declare this mission open for business.

—James Dobbins

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Business
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The United States has oscillated between extremes of attention and neglect in Haiti. The basic problem is that our focus has never been continuous.

—James Dobbins

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