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The Bush administration's approach to the war on terror collided badly with another of its doctrines, spreading democracy in the Middle East as a…

— Peter Bergen

“the rise and decline of the Islamic State, and the impending resurgence of al-Qaeda. In”

— Ali H. Soufan

“America certainly did its part. But doing the sums, it is now clear that through the eight years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, 1981-89, Saudi…

— Robert Lacey

“the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops as part…

— Fred Halliday

You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought…

— Jill Stein

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

— Amy Waldman

“When we went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, there was a certain understanding that we had the ability and the right to…

— Jeremy Scahill

“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

“It is simplistic and naive to explain jihadism merely as an inevitable growth from Islam’s ‘violent’ scripture, or as no more than a miscarried…

— Jonathan A.C. Brown

“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became…

— George Packer

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes.…

— Peter Bergen

“regime had handled the military threat successfully.41 But the rise of Islamism as a social force was a different story.”

— Tarek Osman