Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly… — Richard Engel Copy Share
Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of… — Richard Engel Copy Share
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only… — Richard Engel Copy Share
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. — Richard Engel Copy Share
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement. — Richard Engel Copy Share
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel Copy Share
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be… — Richard Engel Copy Share
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone. — Richard Engel Copy Share
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case… — Richard Engel Copy Share
Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,… — Richard Engel Copy Share
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States… — Richard Engel Copy Share
Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus. — Richard Engel Copy Share
![“How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know…” quote by Richard Engel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e0/richard-engel-3133_can-do_how-can-you-claim-infallibility-and-clai_2905561.jpg)
