The Twilight War Quotes

“when Bush traveled to Saudi Arabia in January 2008”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“In December 2007”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“On August 4”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“DIA analyst briefed a group of senior three-stars in the Tank about the Iranian mine threat. The intelligence officer concluded his thirty-minute presentation: “We do not believe that Iran poses a major mine threat to the Gulf shipping at this time. Although the Iranians are capable of small scale mine laying . . . we estimate that they do not have the capability to lay and maintain systematic minefields. The threat is primarily psychological.”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“A study produced by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory concluded that the battleship could take eleven Silkworm missiles before being put out of action”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“Beginning with the very first shipment of TOW missiles”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“On August 20”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“Between 1983 and 1985”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“During a news conference at the end of the first American war with Iraq”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“In July 1980”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“In popular lore, the Iranian arms dealings have been portrayed as rogue policy pursued by the national security staff due to an inattentive president. In truth, the arms-to-Iran initiative continued a five-year-long strategy, one deeply rooted in Cold War fears of revolutionary Iran falling under the Soviet sphere.”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“If we fail to act soon we will face an economic, social, and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions.” The looming oil crisis, said Carter in one of the more memorable lines of his presidency, “is the moral equivalent of war.”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran