Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadidwas a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth26 September 1968
CountryUnited States of America
almost died divine feeble few flawless merciless quality relatively ruled saddam soldiers three
There was an almost divine quality to American power; it was merciless in its practice, flawless in its execution, ... Saddam had ruled for thirty-five years; the Americans had toppled him in less than three weeks, and relatively few of their soldiers had died in the task. How could these same Americans be so feeble in the aftermath?
covered government reporting syria
I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.
actions felt forcing responses saw side understood
Each side, American and Iraqi, saw their actions as responses to the other's threats. Each side felt the other was forcing it to act. Each side thought the other only understood force.