Charles Glass
Person on 4 sites
American-British journalist, author and broadcaster; former ABC News chief Middle East correspondent, held hostage in Lebanon in 1987; author of Tribes with…
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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America’s twenty years in Afghanistan left a long-term impact as negligible as Britain’s and Russia’s invasions did. (opens korrents.com)
“Despite the expenditure of $1 trillion and the loss of 2,311 American and an estimated 95,000 Afghan lives, America’s long-term impact was as negligible as Britain’s and Russia’s.”
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Those who protest injustice in Gaza, however ineffectively, are absolved of the culpability of waiting for everyone else to oppose it. (opens korrents.com)
“Their efforts, however ineffective, absolve them of the culpability of waiting for everyone else to be “against this.””
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Israel’s 1973 assassinations in Beirut helped spark Lebanon’s civil war and, through it, Israel’s repeated invasions of Lebanon. (opens korrents.com)
“The murders enhanced Israel’s reputation for effective elimination of enemies—but also helped to spark Lebanon’s civil war and, as a result, Israel’s invasions of 1978, 1982, 2006, and, here we go again, 2024.”
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America’s twenty years in Afghanistan left a long-term impact as negligible as Britain’s and Russia’s invasions did. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Catch-22 (opens rcmnd.app)
“Catch 22 has every character in it that the American military did have at the time and still has today in Iraq and Afghanistan: The money-makers, the crooks, the officers who were trying to claw their way to the top…”
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Catch-22 (opens rcmnd.app)