“If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsLittlesEndsCasesAbsolutesPreparedEnd Of The WorldEighteenNineteenAbsolute Power Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.” IfsWorldWayWellsProblemNaturalLandMilitaryStrongestQuirkyReluctanceMilitary PowerAmerican Military Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.” PeopleWorldMeanLongWarStatesDoneSeemsForceUnitedUnited StatesWestIraqHatedMuslim World Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.” IfsWorldWayShouldHardAmericaFacesForceAbuseGet UpReportsMuslim WorldGuantanamoSimulateAbu Ghraib Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.” IfsWorldLooksGovernmentHateDemocracyModernExampleFineVery GoodTurkeysIslamistsMuslim World Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
