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Every war has its demons.
I don't think I'm invincible.
I think war should be illegal.
Every war has revolutionary justice.
The Sahara is Africa's great divide.
There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.
Lebanon does not have a powerful army.
Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.
9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.
It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.
By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.
Putin believes Russia is back, and he may be right.
Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.
ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.
I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.
It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.
I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.
If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.
Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.
Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.
The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.
Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.
Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.
Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.
For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.
I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.
Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.
Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.
I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.
Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.