Richard Engel Quotes

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Richard Engel

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 16, 1973

The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.

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If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?

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The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

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In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

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It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.

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Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.

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The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

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Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

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Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

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For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

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The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

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To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

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The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

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Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.

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A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so.

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Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.

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There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.

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President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

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Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

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If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

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