“From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.” AmericaStrongClassGrowingMiddleMilitaryBuildingFoundationBarackBridgesMiddle ClassCarolinaDeliveringNorth CarolinaBroadbandStrong AmericaBuilding Roads Author:Bev Perdue
“The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.” WarCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesMiddleMilitaryIraqEastIslamicMiddle EastSecularGangArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisInvadingMilitary History Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation
“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.” FirstsWarSchoolFatherForceOpinionClassMiddleMilitaryMembersMy FamilyUniversityConservativeBritishBackgroundsBrokeMiddle ClassTypicalNavyJoiningArmed ForcesMobilityNavalPrivate SchoolUpward Mobility Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.” MenYearsKindBookEndsMomentsPoliticalBornImaginationMemoriesHappenedMiddleMilitaryColdLondonBarsConfusionEncountersFiftyThat MomentDisgustingWornAccentsAssociatesSpyAirportsHandfulMiddle AgedWorn OutScotchInformantsIrish Accent Author:John le Carre
“In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.” WarNationsLeadershipGroupsMiddleMilitaryIncludingIraqEastTerroristBroadsMiddle EastSyriaStoppingCoalitionsDegradeMilitary PowerIsilTerrorist GroupsAmerican Leadership Author:Barack Obama
“The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.” WayShouldStatesBigsForceUnitedUnited StatesGoneIssuesClearMiddleMilitarySucceedIraqEastMiddle EastVentureMilitary Force Author:Milton Friedman
“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.” WritingAgeSchoolLanguageResultsGenerationsMiddleMilitaryLateForbiddenCantMiddle AgesKurds Author:Luke Harding
“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” YearsLittlesWarCountryDiesFightingBitsMillionsSupportCuttingSacrificeMiddleMilitaryTaxesLittle BitDeserveTerrorEarningMillionaireWar On TerrorTax CutsPonies Author:E. J. Dionne
“We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.” NeedsMiddleMilitaryEuropeEastPartnersMiddle EastUnison Author:Jeb Bush
“Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.” WarAnswersMiddleMilitaryCollegeIncreaseUniversitySpendingEastEndlessIncomeMiddle EastIntroducingLegislationAffordableTuitionColleges And UniversitiesEndless WarMilitary Spending Author:Bernie Sanders
“I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.” WorldBelieveMayMiddleMilitaryEastBudgetsMiddle EastPerpetualWarfareMilitary Budget Author:Bernie Sanders
“A military audience is kind of weird. Pretty much how you would imagine a troop of males that haven't seen a female in a long time and have been stuck in a base camp in the middle of nowhere for too long without any alcohol.” KindLongHas BeensAudienceImagineMiddleMilitaryHavensLong TimeFemaleMalesAlcoholStuckCampsMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Missy Higgins
“Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. They don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.” IfsAbleOrderMiddleMilitaryPositionVictimIsraelOilEastUpsetOccupationMiddle EastPalestinianSaudis Author:John Pilger
“I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments. The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East. But I don't believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.” BelieveWellsStatesAmericaUnitedAttentionUnited StatesMiddleMilitaryTheoryArgumentIncreaseInvestmentDon't BelieveEastContraryExpensesMiddle EastAccurateReducingAmerican MilitaryMilitary Presence Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“Shaking up whole region means that Israel needs the US for its safety and military camps are "flourishing" everywhere in the Middle East. It has been said that Barack Obama is less interested in the Middle East. I don't think so. This mess has been created and maintained. Maybe the US is pretending to be less interested, however, it allows them to take their power back when it comes to security.” ThinkingNeedsMeanHas BeensSaidWholeMiddleSecurityMilitarySafetyIsraelEastMessBarackRegionsPretendingCampsMiddle EastShakingBack WhenFlourishing Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.” ClassMiddleMilitaryGrewGrew UpWorkersMiddle ClassThis DayConstructionMy Best FriendConstruction Workers Author:Miles Teller
“Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.” CountryMiddleMilitaryPositionWeaponsIncludingIsraelEastNuclearCapabilityMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsEasternSurpassingSmall Countries Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I went to Jerusalem, the dead sea, it was just amazing. Because what we see in the TV, I'm sorry to say it, I don't want to insult nobody, but a lot of the image that we see from the middle east in Canada - It's sad to say but it's always bad stuff. I was thinking coming here it would be a lot of military, security, everybody would be a little more on the edge, but I see it's amazing. It feels a little bit similar to Miami.” ThinkingWantFeelsLittlesWould BeStuffBitsSeaMiddleSecurityMilitaryTvsLittle BitSorryEdgesEastInsultCanadaMiddle EastI'm SorryJerusalemMiamiBad Stuff Author:Georges St-Pierre
“Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.” MiddleMilitaryVictimIsraelEastOccupationMiddle EastPalestinian Author:John Pilger
“The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.” LastsHumanityBehindsHalfMiddleWorstCenturyMilitaryCrimeArmsIndustryWeaponsEastCriminalsIdeologyIranApathyMiddle EastConventionalGreedyLagMilitary PowerCrimes Against HumanitySuper Power Author:Ilan Pappe