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Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
— Richard Engel
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.
— Richard Engel
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
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If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.
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Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
— Richard Engel
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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A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
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Every war has its demons.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.
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There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.
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Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.
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Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
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Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.
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If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.
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The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
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The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.
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Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
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It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.
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The Sahara is Africa's great divide.
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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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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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Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.
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War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
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Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
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The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
— Richard Engel
Lebanon does not have a powerful army.
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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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Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.
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Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
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Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
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To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.
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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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9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.
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I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.
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Every war has revolutionary justice.
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The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
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It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.
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We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.
— Richard Engel
I think war should be illegal.
— Richard Engel
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
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I don't think I'm invincible.
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There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.
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I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.
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Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.
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I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
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I'm basically a pacifist.
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Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
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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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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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ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.
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Putin believes Russia is back, and he may be right.
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Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
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ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
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Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.
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Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.
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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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Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.
— Richard Engel
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
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Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.
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War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
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Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
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War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
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To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.
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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.
— Richard Engel
Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.
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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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I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them.
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The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.
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Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'
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If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
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The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
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