"Last chances in the Middle East have been……" — James Buchan
"Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly."
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James Buchan
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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