Richard Engel Quotes

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Richard Engel

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 16, 1973

I think war should be illegal.

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I'm basically a pacifist.

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I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

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I don't think I'm invincible.

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Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

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The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.

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For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.

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Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

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President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.

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The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.

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For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

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We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

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We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.

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When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.

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Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

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There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.

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The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.

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When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.

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The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

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The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

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