Kenneth Pollack Quotes (9 Quotes)


    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.

    Iran is at least five years away from having a working nuclear weapon.

    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.

    The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.

    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.


    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.

    This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields even if it weren't about them, they would assume it was about them. So that in and of itself will likely provoke a response. The Iranians are not inert targets If they started to think we were moving in the direction of a military move against them, they would start fighting us right away.

    Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

    I think it's clear Iran is trying to acquire all aspects of the fuel cycle, there is evidence they are considering doing some research on weapons but no one knows if they are going to cross the threshold of weapons.


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