People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only... →
Don Kardong
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the... →
Janis Karpinski
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population... →
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of... →
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have... →
Hamid Karzai
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the... →
If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.