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Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

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

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

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

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.

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.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Every war has its demons.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

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

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

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

The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.

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

It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.

The Sahara is Africa's great divide.

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.

Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.

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

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

Lebanon does not have a powerful army.

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

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

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

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

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

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

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

Every war has revolutionary justice.

The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.

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

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

I think war should be illegal.

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

I don't think I'm invincible.

There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.

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

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.

I'm basically a pacifist.

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

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

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

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

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

Putin believes Russia is back, and he may be right.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

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?

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.

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

Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.

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.

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

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

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.

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.

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

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.

I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them.

The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

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

The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.