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Ivo Daalder

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Dr. Ivo H. Daalder, is an academic, political scientist, foreign policy adviser and author in the United States. He is also Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy studies at The Brookings Institution. Daalder advises Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on foreign policy.

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“The possibility of Libby being indicted, and the whole Cheney angle, ... is all about proving in some sense that they were wrong and therefore that we who opposed the war and never thought the intelligence was right have been proven correct.”

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“This has the makings of classic conflict, ... The American view is to lean towards independence; the European Union will say, 'Let's figure out a way not to make that decision'; and the Russians on the opposite side saying, 'Over my dead body.' ”

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“The way in which the leak investigation is being pursued is becoming a symbol of who was right and who was wrong about the war.”

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“Clearly, people like me who believe that ground forces are necessary in order to win the air war have been proven wrong. At the same time, I remain convinced that if we had done what I think we should have done, which is to deploy ground forces from day one in order to keep open the possibility of going in on the ground, we would have probably gotten this result a lot sooner and probably at less cost.”

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“He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.”

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“The whole reason for a threat is to show there is a line. And show that the U.S. will respond if he crosses it.”

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“One of the remarkable things about Macedonia is that it is the only republic that has emerged out of Yugoslavia in which there is a multi-ethnic government.”

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“Clearly Clinton made a gamble -- the gamble that you could go to war without calling it a war. That you could use force without using ground troops. That you could fight a major fight without losing any Americans and still come out in the end proclaiming -- rightly so -- success. He gambled, and as usual with Bill Clinton, he won.”

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“The clearest losers are the Serb people who withstood an 11- week bombing campaign in order to overcome the policies of their leader. Clearly the Kosovar Albanians are big losers. Thousands, if not tens of thousands were killed.”

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“The Russians want to be an indispensable player in the Balkans. But they know they can only do that if they use their power wisely. They know that calling on Milosevic to cancel the second round is pointless, so they are holding fire until they can be more productive.”

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