Anthony Shadid Quotes (4 Quotes)

tribal authority had grown in the wake of the government's fall . . . tribal code stipulated a brutal frontier justice, which had come to fill a lawless void. This code, rigorous and unforgiving, was paramount.

Each side, American and Iraqi, saw their actions as responses to the other's threats. Each side felt the other was forcing it to act. Each side thought the other only understood force.

There was an almost divine quality to American power it was merciless in its practice, flawless in its execution, ... Saddam had ruled for thirty-five years the Americans had toppled him in less than three weeks, and relatively few of their soldiers had died in the task. How could these same Americans be so feeble in the aftermath

Night Draws Near Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War