Been Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

9 Been quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer’s nine brief reflections on being draw from his reporting background, offering clear, thoughtful observations. The short format delivers a quick, informed glimpse into his perspective on identity.

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The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.

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The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with…

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No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they…

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Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical…

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Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

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Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

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Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded,…

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One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have…

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The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have…

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Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

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Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated…

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“Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed “the use of…

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During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

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As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

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Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

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“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure…

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No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

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Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.

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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

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