Jon Lee Anderson Quotes
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.
War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.
