Ivo Daalder Quotes
Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.
Daalder, Ivo H., and James M. Lindsay. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
The Pakistani government and the army were two distinct and separate power centers. The military saw their major problem to be India, and coddled the Islamic terrorists to deploy them against India while claiming the military is not responsible for the attacks. The terrorism that is taught in many Madrassas schools, the government is reluctant to crack down on and get the terrorism out of the curriculum as they will lose many orthodox Muslim votes and the Islamic terrorists might assassinate any politician who threatend their power base. So Pakistan tried at the time to control the terrorist acts but would not do anything to weaken the terrorists.
Ivo H. Daalder, is President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and has served since July, 2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
