Five years Quote by Scott Anderson

“Thirty or forty years from now, the American adventures into the bowels of the Middle East will be forgotten details of a bumbling imperialism.…

— Charles Bowden

“...the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History may be…

— Alberto Manguel

“Middlestein thought texting was the same as Morse code, and the more people texted, the closer American came to being a nation at war.”

— Jami Attenberg

“I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but…

— Christopher Hitchens

Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

— Jacob Weisberg

“Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.” Carl von Clausewitz”

— Scott J Roberts

“He and Willoughby preferred that the Pentagon and the Truman administration be completely dependent upon them for any information about what was going on…

— David Halberstam

Maybe it's the spy novelist in me looking for a future plot, but I hope the U.S. and its allies are thinking how to…

— David Ignatius

“The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple…

— Brian Whitaker

“~ “In their secretly nervous hearts, they’ve convinced themselves, poor little delusional narcissists, that their nation is the most powerful that ever was or…

— Tom Robbins

“In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained on the…

— Lynne Olson