War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
From 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.
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.
By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.
There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
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