Attacking Quote by Tariq Ramadan

“The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that their inept…

— Christopher Hitchens

Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal…

— Howard Jacobson

“Easier to demonize than to understand, and that’s the truth on both sides of every war.”

— Plague Jack

“I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Just because a soldier is in…

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that…

— Juan Cole

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

— Bashar al-Assad

“The more division the Iraqi authorities cultivated, the more we worked for inclusion. The more aggression they showed us, the more time we devoted…

— Widad Akreyi

“The purpose is not to justify or rationalize but to understand. Justification is another form of judgment every bit as debilitating as condemnation. When…

— Gabor Maté

“In wars amongst ideas, doubters are the victims.”

— Toba Beta

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these…

— George Tenet

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such…

— Alan Moore