Time Quote by Barry Eisler

“Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had…

— Bob Woodward

“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years the excitement…

— Petra Procházková

“I think about Sam sometimes now and I realize that he is walking around with a fake set of memories about our time together.…

— Helen Slavin

“the most striking thing about him to the modern reader is that here was a devout Muslim who constantly made jokes about Islam that…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my head to…

— Khaled Hosseini

When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait…

— Bob Hawke

“Funny, Sam told himself, how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we…

— Robert Bloch

“Within a few short, dramatic months Afghanistan had been catapulted into the centre of the intensified Cold War between the Soviet Union and the…

— Ahmed Rashid

“correspondent in the Middle East, attaché William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in the Middle…

— Scott Anderson

“with men he had personally handpicked from the jihadist rabble, men he had turned into the ruthless killing machines they were today. An elite…

— Isaac Hooke

“The mujahid, the scholar who practices what he preaches, the worshipper, the leader, the warrior, the reviver, the descendant from the family of the…

— Jay Sekulow

“Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one…

— Laura Hillenbrand