Kenneth M. Pollack > Quotes

“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).”
― Kenneth Pollack, Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

“It's not actually that hard to be an expert on Iran. You only need to know two phrases: "I don't know" and "it depends.”
― kenneth pollack, Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murder.”
― Kenneth Pollack, Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

“Leaders”
― Kenneth M. Pollack, The Persian Puzzle

“history”
― Kenneth M. Pollack, The Persian Puzzle

“known) were accustomed to looking down on Europeans as barbarian adherents to a superseded religion and a primitive civilization. Now, suddenly, they were trouncing the shah’s armies, carving up their lands, making and unmaking governments, monopolizing their markets, and treating their land as battleground, playground, and campground with no regard for the needs or desires of the Iranians themselves. It was humiliating; it was frustrating, and it was frightening for Iranians to be so vulnerable and so constantly manipulated by these foreign powers. And it reinforced a powerful sense of xenophobia coupled with an inferiority complex among Iranians to complement their superiority complex. Elaine Sciolino has covered Iran since the revolution and is one of the most knowledgeable journalists writing on Iran, yet even she admits in her book Persian Mirrors”
― Kenneth M. Pollack, The Persian Puzzle

“examine”
― Kenneth M. Pollack, The Persian Puzzle