The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.
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Kenneth Pollack of National Defense University said Saddam Hussein felt he had not lost anything and perhaps gained something from previous crises. In either of those circumstances, ... it's worth something to him to try it again.Kenneth Pollack
I think it's unlikely that President Bush will choose to involve himself as deeply in Middle East peace negotiations as say President Clinton or President Carter did before him. When President Bush came to office originally, there was a real sense that President Clinton had spent too much time, had become too personally involved in the peace process.
Kenneth Pollack
Iran is at least five years away from having a working nuclear weapon.
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Either the new Iraqi government with U.S. backing starts to fix Iraq's problems or continued failures will propel Iraqis in to the arms of the militias, likely generating a full-blown civil war.
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Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.
Kenneth Pollack
It's a way of demonstrating to the world that you can't forget about Iraq, ... That Iraq will not allow itself to be forgotten, that Iraq will never allow the sanctions and the no-fly zones and all these other restrictions to simply exist. They will constantly fight against them.
Kenneth Pollack
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