Quotes by Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

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Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfi — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
The administration often used the analogy of planting the “seeds of democracy” in the Middle East, as if they’d sprout i — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
It is a disturbing aspect of human nature that if there is a place where there are no consequences and where the most gr — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
From seven hundred journalists at the beginning of March, the number had dwindled to about one hundred and fifty—print r — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you’re Superman, invincible. In the second, you’re a — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Then someone cried out, “Suicide bomber!” The crowd panicked. In the ensuing stampede, terrified pilgrims ran in both di — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
I may have been in stage four, but I wasn’t completely crazy. At least eighty-six journalists had been killed in Iraq, m — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed tha — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
When I came to the Middle East, journalists had a kind of immunity that allowed us to travel freely and meet with milita — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn’t much care anymore. — Richard Engel, And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East