Toby Dodge Quotes (7 Quotes)

The British presence has been incredibly light, they have a laissez-faire attitude.

Does the process dump the Sunnis by the wayside or do they stay and hammer out a compromise

The response has to be swift and it has to be bloody to prove to the population of the town, and the whole of Iraq, that any attack on the president will be punished in brutal and horrific terms.

The attempt to ensure passage was a mixture of arrogance and stupidity, ... It would have made a Sunni boycott (of Saturday's vote) inevitable.

It's pretty messy and I think ultimately it won't do anything positive but just aggravate the violence.

This isn't shaping up to be just a civil war - it's worse than that. It's a war of all against all. What we have is a security vacuum that has given rise to various different forces fighting each other for control ... it's much more fractured than a civil war.

You have an assassination attempt on the president of Iraq, a president who's invaded Iran, the war isn't going well this is a clear blow against his power,