The Americans may think they have ‘liberated’ Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves – they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty – seem to have a different idea what liberation means. Robert Fisk Read Quote
U.S. journalists I don’t think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government’s policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. Robert Fisk Read Quote
I don’t know what happens if they get bin Laden. I’m much more interested in what happens if they don’t get bin Laden. Robert Fisk Read Quote
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. Robert Fisk Read Quote
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. Robert Fisk Read Quote
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. Robert Fisk Read Quote
When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they’ve got, told me where the rebels were – about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving. Robert Fisk Read Quote
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. Robert Fisk Read Quote
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book ‘Great War of Civilization,’ and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East – not that he had much to do with that – but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization. Robert Fisk Read Quote