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> [I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/i-think-president-barack-obama-came-to-office-with-quite-fundamental/)

[Vali Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vali-nasr/)

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## More by Vali Nasr

> [A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/a-timely-and-incisive-look-into-the-history-politics-and-future-of/)

[Vali Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vali-nasr/)

> [I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/i-think-president-barack-obama-came-to-office-with-quite-fundamental/)

[Vali Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vali-nasr/)

> [My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/my-time-in-the-obama-administration-turned-out-to-be-a-deeply/)

[Vali Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vali-nasr/)

> [“Heed not the blind eye, the echoing ear, nor yet the tongue, but bring to this great debate the test of reason. —Parmenides”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/heed-not-the-blind-eye-the-echoing-ear-nor-yet-the-tongue-but-bring/)

[Vali Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vali-nasr/)

> [President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/president-barack-obama-started-by-accepting-the-military-s/)

[Vali Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vali-nasr/)

> [What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vali-nasr/what-you-have-in-iraq-is-not-just-a-society-coming-apart-like/)

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