4 Quotes & Sayings By Terry Glavin

Terry Glavin is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. A former columnist with the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, he has written a number of books on business and leadership. He was a founding member of the board of directors of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. His last book, Rich Relations: The Unseen Wealth of Relation Shoppers was published in 2013 Read more

He currently hosts the CBC Radio program "The Terry Glavin Show" which airs across Canada on Saturdays at 5 p.m.

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It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi. Terry Glavin
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It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna. Terry Glavin
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On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban. Terry Glavin