Stephen Kinzer Quotes

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• New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.
• When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
• Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.
• The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
• The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
• Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a…
• Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.
• As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
• The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.
• Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
• Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.
• No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
• The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
• If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
• Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
• In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were…
• No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been…
• In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power…
• Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
• Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than…

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