Quotes About Amin

SO NOW IT'S 1979. Year of the Goat. The Earth Goat. Here are some things you might remember. Margaret Thatcher had just been elected prime minister. Idi Amin had fled Uganda. Jimmy Carter would soon be facing the Iran hostage crisis. In the meantime, he was the first and last president ever to be attacked by a swamp rabbit. That man could not catch a break.

Quand, dans les années soixante, j'ai ouvert les yeux sur le monde qui m'entourait, Beyrouth avait commencé à supplanter Le Caire comme capitale intellectuelle de l'Orient arabe.

Nous avons maintenant l'occasion de donner à l'URSS sa guerre du Vietnam." De fait, Moscou a dû mener en Afghanistan, pendant presque dix ans, une guerre exténuante, qui a entraîné la démoralisation et finalement l'éclatement de l'empire soviétique. »

Perhaps writing only arouses the passions in order to allay them, as beaters flush out the game in order to expose it to the hunter's arrows.

Si uno examina los motivos de su flirteo con Hitler y cuestiona aquello a lo que los palestinos se refieren a veces con cierta incomodidad como el «período alemán» de hach Amin, los palestinos preguntarán por qué apoya uno la campaña de calumnias «sionistas» contra la memoria de aquel anciano. El mero hecho de hablar sobre su vida supone quedar atrapado en una guerra de propaganda árabe-israelí.

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.