In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
“how tragic it was that so many Americans pictured Baghdad simply as one of those many dusty, war-torn Middle Eastern cities in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“In a place of extreme violence and devoid of order, the practical subsumes the principle. I drifted down the path of bribery… — Jason Whiteley Copy Share Image
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The solution to Iraq -- an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself -- is more than a military… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last night Bullets, rockets and granades flying Allah heard only their wine voices Bursting in… — Gabriel Rosenstock Copy Share Image
In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Children recognized me from 'Home Alone' in Baghdad when I was visiting the troops there. When I was in Japan, when I… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
![“If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.” quote by Lindsey Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/lindsey-graham-3593_age_if-president-obama-does-not-go-on-the-of_998412.jpg)
