Kanan Makiya Quotes
born 1949 Iraq
Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American academic and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.
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I want to look into myself, look at myself, delve into the assumptions I had before the war.
I think there's a less than 5 percent chance that what I'd like to see happen actually happens. But it seems to me an obligation, even if it’s a 5 percent chance, to try to make it happen. You could call it a triumph of hope over experience. But what else is politics if not that?
Someone has to keep dreaming.
People say to me, "Kanan, this is ridiculous, democracy in Iraq, a complete pipe dream," ... That's realism. You know, in a way, the realists are right, they are always right. Even when they are morally wrong.
[R]ealism. You know, in a way, the realists are right, they are always right. Even when they are morally wrong.