...analysts say. "They've been a cost-effective way of keeping (Saddam) in the box," the Brookings Institution's Ivo Daalder said, adding that the zones also have curtailed training by Iraq's air force. Together, the zones cover some two-thirds...

...isn't producing enough progress toward toppling Afghanistan's Taliban regime. "McCain is not a lonely voice," said Ivo Daalder, a former Clinton administration national security aide now at the Brookings Institution, a moderate Washington think...

...he said. "He (Saddam) does pose a threat. We have to do something because we said we would do something." Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution said Bush seems to have made a decision to take on Saddam without thinking through the...

...quarterly, cautioned that "experience shows that putting things into the same agency does not always coordinate them." Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution, his collaborator, pointed out that "25 years after we created the Department of Energy...

...goals and giving Saddam a deadline. "I don't think the first President Bush made many mistakes on Iraq," said Ivo Daalder, a national security aide in the Clinton White House. "But the present administration hasn't made clear what its...