Peter Bergen
Related One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at... PETER L. BERGEN HENRY ROLLINS PHIL KLAY We're calling for an immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq. It's the occupation... DUSTIN LANGLEY SHASHI THAROOR In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of c... DARIO FO Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For ... BASHAR ASSAD PETER BERGEN GEORGE VECSEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES He doesn't believe that occupying Iraq is a winning strategy for American troops. He wants the presi... LONN HOKLIN If we look at what the United States did in Iraq in the last three years, there are a lot of positiv... HAJIM ALHASANI An immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq will only strengthen the terrorists' hand in Iraq an... MR BUSH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely;... JANIS KARPINSKI (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON 150,000 American troops are bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq because the Bush administration misrep... TED KENNEDY ALAN FURST The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior t... JANE HARMAN G. K. CHESTERTON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Poland wants the stabilization mission in Iraq to be a success... Our troops are in Iraq and they wi... ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI TOM COTTON IKE SKELTON We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the inse... CAROL ROSE Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Af... BLAKE FARENTHOLD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh... ASHISH KUMAR G.K. CHESTERTON G.K. CHESTERTON SAM KEAN America ends war in Iraq. A shameful end to a shameful beginning. MUHAMMED HAIDER I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of... SCOTT RITTER Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstate... CARL LEVIN We should recognize that most Americans are focused on an exit strategy in Iraq. Even if withdrawal ... RICHARD LUGAR ROBERT BYRD Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's ca... PETER L. BERGEN In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr... JIM MCGOVERN C. JOYBELL C. C. JOYBELL C. NEIL GAIMAN NAOMI SHIHAB NYE NEIL GAIMAN ANNALEE NEWITZ I think we have to set a date for withdrawal. The January elections (in Iraq) are a natural time. ALAN SIMPSON NOAM CHOMSKY The American sentiment after 9-11, the heartbreak, the fear and the anger, all of that was used to g... CHRIS WRIGHT At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues... KIT BOND In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic mi... RICHARD ENGEL This will be the first real evidence of how the tech sector is doing after the Iraq war. MICHAEL DAVIES MIKE PENCE LUKE MACFARLANE MIRANDA JULY Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on ... MARSHALL WITTMANN HUGO CHAVEZ PETE HEGSETH This campaign is extremely important, both for Iraq and the global eradication effort. After tremend... ROGER WRIGHT The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/... JANE HARMAN Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul... VICTORIA STRAUSS TOM COTTON I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S... MARY MACLANE P.C. CAST HENRY JAMES EVELYN WAUGH The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in Decem... BADEE AREF The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in Decem... BADEE IZZAT AREF EVAN MCMULLIN We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've... ALI SMITH Iraq has several sects, religions and nationalities so this list is the best choice for the Iraqis w... AYAD ALLAWI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING After Afghanistan and Iraq, he is now creating a plot to attack Iran. HANNAN MOLLAH Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE JIM WALLIS C. JOYBELL C. Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to t... STEPHEN COHEN JAN SCHAKOWSKY To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics. RICH BOND Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was ... ANNA MARIA CHAVEZ [At the same briefing Thursday at which McClellan challenged Roberts, he lit into Hearst columnist H... SCOTT MCCLELLAN MARKUS ZUSAK ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, is not considered as a threat to its neighbors and the entir... MAHMUD AHMADINEJAD Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is,... JACK KEANE The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terro... MATT GALLAGHER Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all I... ALI ABDULLAH SALEH After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I c... UMBERTO ECO the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq. DENNIS KUCINICH TOM BROKAW ALEKSANDAR HEMON DAVID IGNATIUS The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequent... FARNAZ FASSIHI SAMUEL ROGERS NOAM CHOMSKY SHASHI THAROOR GEORGE W. BUSH The war in Iraq is immoral, illegal and cruel. Overwhelmingly, Americans, soldiers and Iraqis want A... DEXTER KAMILEWICZ When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I am running for president of the United States to end the United States occupation of Iraq, and put... DENNIS KUCINICH
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BERGEN A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing ... PETER L. BERGEN Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American ci... PETER L. BERGEN Rather than making loose and unsubstantiated claims that Obama and Clinton created ISIS, it would be... PETER L. BERGEN If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable t... PETER L. BERGEN ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity o... PETER L. BERGEN Trump displays many of the traits of a proto-fascist, and he is also part of a wave of right-wing na... PETER L. BERGEN When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 atta... PETER L. BERGEN Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Su... PETER L. BERGEN For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of the... PETER L. BERGEN Pakistan's key leaders have succumbed to the assassin's bullet or bomb or the hangman's ... PETER L. BERGEN I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani ... PETER L. BERGEN Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pres... PETER L. BERGEN ISIS' key social media-encrypted platform is Telegram, which is engineered by a Berlin-based tec... PETER L. BERGEN Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against t... PETER L. BERGEN President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position ... PETER L. BERGEN In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fi... PETER L. BERGEN Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American l... PETER L. BERGEN In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he foun... PETER L. BERGEN The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GW... PETER L. BERGEN European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape o... PETER L. BERGEN Trump, of course, has been very wrong in the past about important issues such as President Barack Ob... PETER L. BERGEN The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the fou... PETER L. BERGEN Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria ... PETER L. BERGEN Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a here... PETER L. BERGEN Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical ... PETER L. BERGEN Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime... PETER L. BERGEN The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States in... PETER L. BERGEN President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes o... PETER L. BERGEN One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at... PETER L. BERGEN Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hu... PETER L. BERGEN The Nazis and the Khmer Rouge went to great lengths to hide their crimes against humanity. Instead, ... PETER L. BERGEN Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses ... PETER L. BERGEN Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough,... PETER L. BERGEN Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitud... PETER L. BERGEN During the campaign, Trump in many ways repudiated President Obama's national security and forei... PETER L. BERGEN Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key ... PETER L. BERGEN Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's ca... PETER L. BERGEN Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to... PETER L. BERGEN The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy gettin... PETER L. BERGEN 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by rais... PETER L. BERGEN CANDICE BERGEN I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remembe... ERICH BERGEN I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers. EDGAR BERGEN Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie? EDGAR BERGEN So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for... EDGAR BERGEN OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are. EDGAR BERGEN But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God? EDGAR BERGEN After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a touri... EDGAR BERGEN I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I? EDGAR BERGEN Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. EDGAR BERGEN You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. 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