One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it. Ivo Daalder More Quotes by Ivo Daalder More Quotes From Ivo Daalder In 2017... The United States was a major, major presence in the mind of global leaders. It mattered what the Ivo Daalder thought, did, or didn't do. I'm not clear that in 2021, the world's leaders will still be thinking about what The United States is going to do. Ivo Daalder top-news His basic view is what you do is your problem as long as you leave us alone. Ivo Daalder top-news Whatever those values may be and they have been in the past in terms of foreign policy, they are no longer important and he has made that very clear. Ivo Daalder top-news The order in essence was based in trust. People had to trust the United States to ultimately do the right thing. You were willing to give it room to fail and to make mistakes but then to come back, donald Trump has fundamentally broken that trust. Ivo Daalder top-news You clearly have a much weaker Britain whose sway in European capitals is lessened by the vote. Ivo Daalder top-news I think George H.W. Bush was confronted with some huge challenges - the invasion of Kuwait, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union - that he managed with great aplomb. Ivo Daalder great think challenges fall Donald Trump has proven adept at mobilizing anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiment among a minority of Americans into a strong movement that seeks to put the United States first in global affairs. Yet, his is not the majority's view. Ivo Daalder donald-trump minority view strong A big challenge in combating terrorism is learning how to think about things that we can't imagine. Ivo Daalder challenge think terrorism learning We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it. Ivo Daalder do-the-right-thing down through trust The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone. Ivo Daalder alone more first america Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers - he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off? Ivo Daalder place you dark world America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique. Ivo Daalder immigrants unique country america The only place I've ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy, where I lived for three years. Ivo Daalder city place proud people Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally. Ivo Daalder view who treasure positive On climate change, the science is clearer about what you need to do to get a real impact than... on counterterrorism. Ivo Daalder you climate-change change science We have not been a normal country when it comes to engagement in the world. Ivo Daalder engagement normal country world Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal was to negotiate a peace: a peace that was sustaining and self-sustaining over the long term. Ivo Daalder end war peace long Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq. Ivo Daalder everywhere terrorists only iraq President Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to call on the European allies to do more - in one form or another, every president since Harry Truman has done so. What is different this time, however, is Trump's suggestion that America's commitment to the alliance is conditional. Ivo Daalder done time america commitment Many observers believe that the greatest damage Russia has done to U.S. interests in recent years stems from the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Although there is no question that Moscow's meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses. Ivo Daalder question done race believe
