Stephen Kinzer

“Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.”

“The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.”

“Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.”

“Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.”

“No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.”

“Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.”

“During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.”

“When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.”

“In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group for the Appearance Alive of Our Relatives.”