Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military intervention depends upon a belief in the legitimacy of armed violence in resolving political problems, which in turn depends upon our adherence to particular ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman.

Nadje Al-Ali

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Ramadi’s sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It was a place where hell, death, and heaven were so clear and the closest I’ve felt to all three in my life.

M.B. Dallocchio

Tags: death heaven hell iraq iraq-war ramadi



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To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.

M.B. Dallocchio

Tags: death iraq iraq-war triviality overanalysis ramadi



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Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west.

Samuel P. Huntington

Tags: war tyranny imperialism islam iraq united-nations saddam-hussein american-foreign-policy gulf-war western-hypocrisy military-intervention



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We are following with great concern the preparations of the crusaders to launch war on the former capital of Muslims...and to install a puppet government...

Fight these despots. I remind you that victory comes only from God.

The fighting should be in the name of God only, not in the name of national ideologies nor to seek victory for the ignorant governments that rule all Arab states, including Iraq.

[bin Laden's message: fight the 'crusaders']

Osama bin Laden

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