Richard Engel Quotes

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• I think war should be illegal.
• Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
• The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
• For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite…
• Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.
• The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many…
• For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first…
• We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
• When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose…
• Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
• There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.
• War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
• When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
• War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
• The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
• Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
• 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 24,…
• I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
• After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives…
• Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

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