Robert Fisk Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.”

“Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?”

“Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.”

“When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.”

“American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.”

“One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.”

“The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.”

“There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.”

“William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.”

“Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.”