Marina Ottaway Quotes


You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pictures of starving babies. What we're seeing, emergency after emergency, is that the international community does not get mobilized before there is an actual crisis. - Marina Ottaway


What I expect to happen is that the US will be very cautious in pushing for elections as soon as possible and particularly national level elections because it was quite clear that if democracy calls, the Islamists answer. - Marina Ottaway


The policy of the Bush administration concerning democracy-building always proceeded along two tracks, with rhetoric that was somewhat far-reaching accompanied by the second level of actual diplomatic contacts with Arab countries, which have been very cautious. - Marina Ottaway


One can date the beginning of a civil war only in retrospect. But when we see deliberate attacks on members of one community just because of who they are, and retaliatory attacks on members of another community, it is not a good sign. - Marina Ottaway


Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has disappeared and you have this kind of free for all. That is what we're seeing in Iraq, so yes, Iraq is in a state of civil war. - Marina Ottaway


In Iraq, that's not what we find. - Marina Ottaway


Page 1 of 1



Random Authors

Victor Joyner | Steve Feldstein | Paul Thomas | Darrion Caldwell | Dan Tobias | Michael Donahoe | Al Melanson | Danielle Jackson | Rahul Dravid | Igor Ivanov |