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

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

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Lebanon does not have a powerful army.

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

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

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

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

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Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

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

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

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Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

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

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The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.

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

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

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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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There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.

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Author Bio

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