Lawrence Wright Quotes
It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view about the conflict, and I don't have an investment in one side or the other; I feel compassion for both sides. I've spent a fair amount of time in Gaza and Israel, done a lot of reporting and lived over there, and the tragedy is sometimes overwhelming. At the same time, America does have an investment in what happens.
Wright, Lawrence. "I am Lawrence Wright, author of Going Clear and Thirteen Days in September. AMA." Reddit, 18 Sept. 2014.
The CIA was supplying planes and pilots to assist anti-Government rebels in their efforts to overthrow Sukarno. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State and other American officials were insisting that America had no involvement in the Indonesian civil war. See {591337}.
Even though he had seen the United States as an enemy and America had bombed his headquarters in the past, he made this statement. Some saw this a opportunistic to come closer to the United States, and others thought it a sincere statement of his contempt for the terrorists’ methods.
Arab terrorists were raiding Israel. The United States, not yet having experienced September 11 was urging Israel not to retaliate and quietly allow diplomacy to operate.
Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear. His 2020 novel, The End of October, a thriller about a pandemic, was released in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, to generally positive reviews.
