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Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield QUOTES

1 " Three weeks after he climbed out the kitchen window, the boy was outdoors with his cousins—teenagers like him—laying a picnic for dinner beneath the stars. It was then he would have heard the drones approaching, followed by the whiz of the missiles. It was a direct hit. The boy and his cousins were blown to pieces. All that remained of the boy was the back of his head, his flowing hair still clinging to it. The boy had turned sixteen years old a few weeks earlier and now he had been killed by his own government. He was the third US citizen to be killed in operations authorized by the president in two weeks. The first was his father "

― Jeremy Scahill , Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

2 " How could a preacher in rural Yemen pose a threat to the most powerful nation on earth? he wondered. "

― Jeremy Scahill , Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

3 " The Looming Tower. "

― Jeremy Scahill , Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

4 " operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing. "

― Jeremy Scahill , Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

5 " Remember that there was great controversy that George Bush asserted the power simply to detain American citizens without due process or simply to eavesdrop on their conversation without warrant. Here you have something much more severe. Not eavesdropping on American citizens, not detaining them without due process, but killing them without due process. And yet many Democrats and progressives, because it’s President Obama doing it, have no problem with it and are even in favor of it.” Greenwald added: “To say that the President has the right to kill citizens without due process is really to take the Constitution and to tear it into as many little pieces as you can and then burn it and step on it.” For "

― Jeremy Scahill , Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

6 " When we went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, there was a certain understanding that we had the ability and the right to defend ourselves. And the fact that al Qaida had been harbored by the Taliban was lagitimate. I think when we make the decision to go into Iraq, that was less legitimate with many of the observers. And so while there was certainly a certain resource strain and reduction in the ability of just our attention in multiple places, I think it was more important that much of the Muslim world now questiones what we were doing, and we lost some of the support that I think would have been helpful longer term. "

― Jeremy Scahill , Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield