Robert Fisk Short Quotes

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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

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Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.

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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

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We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told, mean that the dream of "Greater Israel" has finally been abandoned... But it is a lie.

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I do truly treasure this story. It proves my point that the Los Angeles Times — along with the big East Coast dailies — should all be called U.S. OFFICIALS SAY.

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President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

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I can't help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections — before their "liberators" murdered them.

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Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory.

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