To Be a Friend Is Fatal Quotes

“I have yet to meet an Iraqi interpreter who can't rattle off the names of several slain colleagues. If George Bush or Barack Obama had been willing to exercise leadership, many of them would have been saved, but instead the bureaucracies under each president's control continue to regard these friends as potential enemies. They do this, they say, to protect us against terrorists, who hate us for our values.”
― Kirk W. Johnson, To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind