“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little stores we passed, the very food that little girl had needed to eat. It didn’t seem to make… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“First comes Coke, then asphalt, then power lines, then maybe education, justice, and human rights.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The Oxford dons had accomplished the impossible. They made Africa boring.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The news of suffering takes a new shape when you’re a parent. Fatherhood peels back a layer of skin, exposing a network of nerves… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“We were about to undertake the most physical challenge of our lives on a diet the equivalent of s’mores.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“I can’t remember any time the Americans have delivered a worse mess than this. You know what they’re doing?” He bent forward and dropped his voice to a whisper—that’s what I loved about Louis, life was a Le Carré novel to him. “They’re still backing the warlords. The CIA never cut the assistance, even after the clerics kicked the warlords’… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share
“Once I heard a remark made about a certain New York television reporter to the effect that he was the type who would have… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“it takes no more than ten grown men to prevent a stationary car from getting away—” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“you know everything you need to know about a guy by seeing how he treats waiters.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“That’s how the Islamists are,” Louis went on. “They keep changing and changing, but they’ll never give up on their goal to rule the… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The Soviet Union had just said dasvidaniya to itself, the Cold War had suddenly ended, the United States was embarking on the longest-running economic expansion in its history, and al-Qaeda was barely a twinkle in Osama’s eye.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share
“The more war you get, the more war you want. It’s an addiction.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“as soon as the Berlin Wall came crumbling down, the Mobutus became an embarrassment. There was suddenly no reason to prop them up. The… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
