Been Quotes by Richard Engel

8 Been quotes by Richard Engel

Richard Engel delivers eight concise thoughts on being, weaving his foreign‑correspondent experience into personal reflection. The brevity makes them a quick window into his worldly view of identity.

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A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed…

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Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son…

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The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a…

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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…

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Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

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Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed…

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The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam…

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The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government…

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The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

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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…

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Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

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There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.

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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…

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Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

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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…

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Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,…

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Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States…

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