About Quote by Noam Chomsky

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Despite its disapproval of Nasser's action and the pro-Soviet direction in which he was leading Egypt, the [Eisenhower] administration saw Nasser's foreign policy as…

— John Spanier

“At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single…

— Alistair MacLean

“The routine expression of hatred for others is so common in the Arab world that it barely draws comment other than from the region’s…

— Tim Marshall

“Oil shaped U.S. decisions about the Middle East during both Democratic and Republican presidencies. The administration of President Jimmy Carter, a liberal Democrat, had…

— Howard Zinn

“The country no longer felt like the innocent place it was said to be in the Eisenhower fifties. Political murder, economic injustice and institutionalized…

— Bruce Springsteen

Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former…

— Anonymous

Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the…

— Carlo Wolff

“Eisenhower was the living symbol of what felt in 1969 like an easier age, when greatness was an American birthright, when the torrents of…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine…

— Edmund White

“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's the people…

— Robert Baer

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

— Jamal Khashoggi