Stephen Kinzer Against Quotations

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.

Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.