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Richard Engel

American Journalist

Born: Sep 16, 1973

American Government People War World You

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You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad. Richard Engel

Love You Liberty Prosperity Victory Few Military Earnest Hopeful Baghdad Names Gotta Camp Just Military Bases Bases Eager

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons. Richard Engel

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9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day. Richard Engel

Day Horrific Terrible Tragic

When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in the Tigris to cool off after reporting in the city the caliphs called Madinit al-Salam, the City of Peace. A year later, I realized I wouldn't be taking any midnight dips - Madinat al-Salam no more. Richard Engel

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I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories. Richard Engel

Look Stories

The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons. Richard Engel

Army Build Spent Collapse Weapons Only Over Dollars Years Years And Years Hand Iraqi Billions Billions Of Dollars Many Watch

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units. Richard Engel

Everyone Soldiers Knows Line Front Front Line Happen Who Units

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided. Richard Engel

Guided Fired Generally Taliban Rockets

A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so. Richard Engel

Think Other States Libya Would Weapons Deterrent Arguably Had Korea Been Iranians North North Korea Might Worked Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Program

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout. Richard Engel

Police President Nile Soldiers Battles Rural Weekly Along Like Islamists Insurgency Southern Egyptian Fields Mubarak Villages Fought Thick

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north. Richard Engel

Three Before State Sunni Were Kurdish South Iraq Provinces North Modern Middle Created Separate Initially Largely Here

Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11. Richard Engel

Government Terrorism CIA Back States Counter Look Conclude Government Officials Effectively Decade Officials Senior After Many United United States

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with. Richard Engel

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned. Richard Engel

You Army Lesson Think Has-Been Seeing Small Divisions Employing Learned Dry Within Deal Occupying Terrorist Foreign Been Up Going Nations Order Again Them Large Groups

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq. Richard Engel

War Result Empowerment Iran Iraq Lot

I think war should be illegal. Richard Engel

War Think Should Illegal

I don't think I'm invincible. Richard Engel

Think Invincible

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections. Richard Engel

Free Sunni Most Surprisingly Little Regions Elections Appetite

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first. Richard Engel

You Army World First Administration Had Driving Primarily Policy Islamic Islamic World Affairs Years Fist Very Eight Bush Bush Administration World Affairs

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore. Richard Engel

Respect No Respect Absolutely Journalists Bloggers Cameras Anymore Rebels Career

We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures. Richard Engel

Time Reflect Military Sacrifices Failures Accomplishments Should

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot. Richard Engel

You Will Looking Once Syria Lot Targets Bombing Start

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