Stephen Kinzer Quotes

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Stephen Kinzer

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Birth : August 4, 1951

As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

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Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

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Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.

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The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

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As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.

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The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

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Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

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There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

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Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.

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Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

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Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.

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No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

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The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'

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The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

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If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

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Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

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My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

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Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

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In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

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