Quotes by Richard Engel

About Richard Engel:

Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".
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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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Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.

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

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

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

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The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

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

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Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state th...

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

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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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The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns, tanks and planes, the Iraqi military fell apart when challenged by a band of terrorists.

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Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to ha...

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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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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.

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Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egyp...

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

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

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Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the d...

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Engel
  • DescriptionAmerican television journalist
  • BornSeptember 16, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist