Benghazi! Quotes

“Unfortunately, there were no Jeffersonian democracies in the Middle East that the United States could enlist as allies. This was the legacy of colonialism and of past US support for dictatorships that satisfied America's priorities of opposing the Soviet Union, assuring America's access to energy, and support for the State of Israel.”
― Ethan Chorin, Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink