In the News Quotes Archive - Page 30 of 36

Bloomberg,

December 20, 2018

“Afrin showed that when an insurgency transitions into a conventional conflict against a large conventional army, it will normally lose. But the PKK can always shift back to unconventional warfare.”

The Atlantic,

December 15, 2018

“The fact that DoD is just now realizing that it had failed to properly bill the Saudi-led coalition after all these years is quite troubling. Congress must now…fix the loophole that could have allowed this.”

Mada Masr,

November 15, 2018

“Even many Democrats who were reluctant to criticize Egypt under Obama would have no qualms about doing that now; they don’t risk the relationship. It’s not consistent, but it’s the reality of life in Washington.”

New York Times,

November 13, 2018

“It’s a very conventional pick. There’s a long history of retired military officers serving in that post.”

NPR,

November 2, 2018

“In the case of the Trump administration, the gap between…relentless critical messaging on Iran’s human rights abuses and the general silence…of those same problems inside authoritarian Arab ally countries is really, really notable.”

New York Times,

November 1, 2018

“I think this makes it much for difficult for [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman] to sustain his singular focus on Iran because the actions he is condemning there, he himself is perpetrating.”

Al-Monitor,

October 31, 2018

“I don’t think anyone seriously believes that Kavala is guilty of anything more than demonstrating the continued, stubborn vibrancy of civil society in Turkey… [H]is very prominence is demonstration that nobody is safe.”

Al-Monitor,

October 25, 2018

“The national security waiver suggests it is critical to US interests that Egypt receives the money. It wasn’t moved for 10 or 11 months. That suggests a manipulation or a derangement of the authority.”

Vox,

October 24, 2018

“Turkey and Saudi Arabia now see each other as leaders on opposite sides of a grand Middle Eastern debate about stability versus populism… I don’t think Turkey is going to drop this [focus on Khashoggi’s murder].”

Washington Post,

October 24, 2018

“[TV] channels [in Turkey] are in lockstep. This would be the equivalent of being in a country in which you had seven MSNBCs or seven Fox televisions, where you had news that was clearly supportive of the government on all the channels.”

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