Middle East Conflicts Quotes

“Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.”
― Dexter Filkins, The Forever War

“We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!”
― Thomas Ferreolus, Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington

“Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hair
shimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer.
“When are you coming home to me?” She said eloquently.”
― Thomas Ferreolus, Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington

“Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.”
― Piet Hein Wokke, Revolution

“In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn’t much care anymore. They saw the Middle East awash in blood, beyond redemption, and didn’t want to read about it or see it on the evening news. They just wanted to keep away from it.”
― Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

“When an event and the broadcasting of that event in real time are too close together, the event is rendered undecidable and virtual; it is stripped of its historical dimension and removed from memory. We are in a generalized feedback effect.
Wherever a mingling of this kind - a collision of poles - occurs, then the vital tension is discharged. Even in 'reality TV' where, in the live telling of the story, the immediate televisual acting, we see the confusion of existence and its double.
There is no separation any longer, no emptiness, no absence: you enter the screen and the visual image unimpeded. You enter life itself as though walking on to a screen. You slip on your own life like a data suit.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact