James Dobbins Quotes

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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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, where the parties that fed the conflict in the first place got most of the vote. - James Dobbins

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