7 Quotes by Robert Malley

There's still time to forge a genuine national compact and promote a national identity, but institutional restraints that so far have prevented a break-up are fast eroding. The main burden is on Iraq's leaders, but they need all the help and pressure the US and others can muster.

There's a lot that the administration's critics won't disagree with, but it's late. I don't think the president has the luxury of time to implement a sound policy, both because of the stress on the military but also because of the problem of the trust of the American public and political elite.

a case study of pinning too much hope on an electoral process without doing so much of the other work.

A compact based on compromise and broad consent could have been a first step in a healing process. Instead it is proving yet another step in a process of depressing decline.

The U.S. is shackled by the very forces that it liberated.

It's not clear that the Israelis would benefit from the breakdown of Palestinian Authority, which would bring chaos, instability, renewed violence against Israel.

The constitution is likely to fuel rather than dampen insurgency,