Anthony Shadid Quotes
Tribal authority had grown in the wake of the government's fall . . . tribal code stipulated a brutal frontier justice, which had come to fill a lawless void. This code, rigorous and unforgiving, was paramount. 
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.
- Anthony Shadid
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?
- Anthony Shadid